The pigeon as a machine: Complex category structures can be acquired by a simple associative model

Summary: Never known for its smarts, the pigeon has proven to be a prodigious classifier of complex visual stimuli. What explains its surprising success? Does it possess elaborate executive functions akin to those deployed by humans? Or does it effectively deploy an unheralded, but powerful associat...

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Main Authors: Brandon M. Turner, Edward A. Wasserman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-10-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004223020758