Serial pattern learning in pigeons: Rule-based or associative?
| Autor: | Stephen B. Fountain, Dennis Garlick, Aaron P. Blaisdell |
|---|---|
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
serial pattern learning
Speech recognition Pecking order rule learning pigeons Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Serial Learning associative learning Choice Behavior Article law.invention Discrimination Learning 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Touchscreen Reward law Data_FILES Feature (machine learning) Animals 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 050102 behavioral science & comparative psychology Columbidae Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Associative property sequence learning Communication business.industry 05 social sciences Rule-based system Rats Associative learning Task (computing) Sequence learning Cues Psychology business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Garlick, D; Fountain, SB; & Blaisdell, AP. (2017). Serial Pattern Learning in Pigeons: Rule-Based or Associative?. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-ANIMAL LEARNING AND COGNITION, 43(1), 30-47. doi: 10.1037/xan0000109. UCLA: Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7972c82q |
| ISSN: | 2329-8464 2329-8456 |
| DOI: | 10.1037/xan0000109 |
| Popis: | Extensive research has documented evidence for rule learning in sequential behavior tasks in both rats and humans. We adapted the 2-choice serial multiple choice (SMC) task developed for use with rats (Fountain & Rowan, 1995a) to study sequence behavior in pigeons. Pigeons were presented with 8 disks arranged in a circular array on a touchscreen, and pecking to an illuminated disk could lead to reward. Correct responding consisted of serial patterns involving "run" chunks of 3 elements (123 234, etc.). Some pigeons experienced a violation of the chunk rule in the final chunk. Unlike rats, pigeons made fewer errors on violation chunks than run chunks, suggesting the use of low-level cues to guide choices. Removal of low-level cues and increasing the number of simultaneously illuminated disks to an 8-choice SMC task resulted in more errors on the violation chunk. Pigeons were able to use the rule when the array of disks was contracted or expanded, and when chunk length was extended to 4 and 5 elements, but not when disks were removed from or added to the array. Pigeons were also able to abstract structure from a "trill" pattern (121 232 etc.), as shown by high error rates on a violation trial. These results suggest that pigeons, like rats and humans, can abstract sequence structure, but do so primarily in the absence of specific low-level feature-based information. (PsycINFO Database Record |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
| Externí odkaz: |
|