What is it about?
Pigeons were trained to perform a discrimination problem and a matching problem. Following acquisition, delays were interposed after stimulus presentation. Accuracy of responding on these two types of delay procedures was observed to be a function of length of delay interval. As expected, performance was poorer on the delayed matching problem than on the delayed discrimination problem.
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Why is it important?
The study demonstrates the presence of avian concept learning on quite complex cognitive tasks.
Perspectives
This paper was my first international publication . It has been much cited in the scientific litterature.
Professor Lars Smith
University of Oslo
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This page is a summary of: Delayed discrimination and delayed matching in pigeons1, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, November 1967, Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior,
DOI: 10.1901/jeab.1967.10-529.
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