Categorization of natural movements by pigeons: visual concept discrimination and biological motion

Article Abstract:

Three experiments were conducted on pigeons to investigate categorization in relation to the impact of the dimension of movement on visual perception and visual discrimination. Six conclusions can be derived from the studies. Among them is the fact that pigeons can respond discriminately to categories of movement from scenes presented on videotape, that discriminations as trained are relatively difficult and discrimination is not enhanced by testing under extinction conditions.

Case studies, Visual perception, Birds, Visual discrimination, Categorization (Psychology)

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Discrimination of direction of movements in pigeons following previous experience of motion-static discrimination

Article Abstract:

Research on pigeons' directional movement discrimination indicates that experimental history of an object's movement against stationary discrimination fosters learning directional motion discrimination. This learning model is compared to one without previous movement/static discrimination, in which learning was poor.

Models, Usage, Animal models in research, Animal research models, Learning in animals, Animal learning

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Transfer to intermediate forms following concept discrimination by pigeons: chimeras and morphs

Article Abstract:

The two experiments that examined pigeonsE generalization to intermediate forms following training of concept discriminations are presented. In both experiments, pigeons learned the concept discrimination quickly and generalized with some decrement to novel instances of the categories.

Discrimination, Chimeras (Organisms)

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