Pigeons presented with sequences of light flashes use behavior to count but not to time

Autor: William A, Roberts, Shelley, Roberts, Karen A, Kit
Rok vydání: 2002
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Zdroj: Journal of experimental psychology. Animal behavior processes. 28(2)
ISSN: 0097-7403
Popis: On randomly ordered trials, pigeons were presented with either a blue or a white key that flashed red for 200 ms at a fast (2 flashes/s), medium (1 flash/s), or slow (0.5 flashes/s) rate. The blue key signaled a fixed-interval (FI) schedule in which the first response after 20 s was reinforced, and the white key signaled a fixed-number (FN) schedule in which the first response after 20 flashes was reinforced. In Experiments 1 and 2, pigeons showed depressed responding to the flash on FI-cued trials and accelerated responding to the flash on FN-cued trials. When the response key was periodically blacked out in Experiments 3 and 4, counting but not timing was eliminated.
Databáze: OpenAIRE