Effects of number of items on the baboon's discrimination of same from different visual displays |
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Authors: | Edward A. Wasserman Michael E. Young Joël Fagot |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Psychology, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1407, USA,;(2) Center for Research in Cognitive Neurosciences (CNRS), 31 chemin Joseph Aiguier, 13402 Marseille cedex 20, France, |
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Abstract: | Three experiments explored the baboon's discrimination of visual displays that comprised 2 to 24 black-and-white computer icons; the displayed icons were either the same as (same) or different from one another (different). The baboons' discrimination of same from different displays was a positive function of the number of icons. When the number of icons was decreased to 2 or 4, the baboons responded indiscriminately to the same and different displays, exhibiting strong position preferences. These results are both similar to and different from those of pigeons that were trained and tested under comparable conditions. Accepted after revision: 23 May 2001 Electronic Publication |
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Keywords: | Same-different discrimination Conceptualization Abstraction Number of items Baboons |
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