Discrimination learning without short-term memory: dissociation of memory processes in pigeons.
Pigeons were trained to perform delayed matching to samples of food and no food when each sample concurrently served as the outcome of a discrimination learning trial which immediately preceded each matching trial. Ambient light presented during the delays after the samples of food or no food severely disrupted matching but had no effect on the rate of discrimination learning.
D000818:Animals; D001244:Association; D010856:Columbidae / Q000502:physiology; D004193:Discrimination Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D008570:Memory, Short-Term / Q000502:physiology*