title: Emergent identity matching after successive matching training, I: reflexivity or generalized identity.
abstract: This research investigated the source of an ostensible reflexivity effect in pigeons reported by Sweeney and Urcuioli (2010). In Experiment 1, pigeons learned two symmetrically reinforced symbolic successive matching tasks (hue-form and form-hue) using red-green and triangle-horizontal line stimuli. They differed in their third concurrently trained baseline task: form-form matching with stimuli appearing in the symbolic tasks (triangle and horizontal) for one group versus hue-hue matching with stimuli not appearing in the symbolic tasks (blue and white) for the other. During subsequent nonreinforced probe tests, all pigeons in the former group and most pigeons in the latter group responded more to the comparisons on matching than on nonmatching red-green probes. In Experiment 2, the latter group was tested on nonreinforced form-form probes. One of the 4 pigeons responded significantly more to the comparisons on matching than on nonmatching triangle-horizontal probes. These data are consistent with generalized identity and at least one other interpretation of the reflexivity results and question the functional stimulus assumption of Urcuioli's (2008) stimulus-class theory.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2081, USA. uche@psych.purdue.edu
authors.forename: Peter J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Urcuioli
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003116:Color; D010856:Columbidae; D003216:Conditioning, Operant; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D005793:Generalization, Psychological; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D012018:Reflex
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