What is it about?
Pigeons were trained to perform a discrimination task and a matching task. After initial learning, delays were introduced following stimulus presentation. Response accuracy in both delay procedures varied according to the length of the delay interval. Performance on the delayed matching task was lower than on the delayed discrimination task.
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Why is it important?
The study shows that birds can learn concepts in complex tasks like delayed matching-to-sample.
Perspectives
This was my first international publication and has been widely cited in scientific literature.
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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