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J Exp Anal Behav. 1996 March; 65(2): 465–475.
doi: 10.1901/jeab.1996.65-465.
PMCID: PMC1350158
Effects of spatial rearrangement of object components on picture recognition in pigeons.
K Kirkpatrick-Steger, E A Wasserman, and I Biederman
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242-1407, USA.
Abstract
Five pigeons were first trained to discriminate among line drawings of four objects: a watering can, an iron, a desk lamp, and a sailboat. The birds were then tested with eight versions of each object, in which the object's components were vertically and horizontally rearranged. The pigeons displayed different degrees of generalization decrement to the different scrambled versions of the objects. Two analyses helped to clarify the nature of the varied accuracy scores. First, cluster analyses disclosed subsets of components that were related to test performance. Second, although the clusters varied somewhat across birds for a given object, there was reliable concordance among the subjects in their rankings of the individual scramblings, suggesting that the pigeons may have attended to common aspects of the drawings.
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