All Outputs (4)

Blind imitation in pigeons (Columba livia) (2006)
Journal Article
McGregor, A., Saggerson, A., Pearce, J., & Heyes, C. (2006). Blind imitation in pigeons (Columba livia). Animal Behaviour, 72(2), 287-296. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.10.026

Pigeons that had been trained with a food reward both to peck at and to step on a horizontal plate were allowed to observe a conspecific demonstrator pecking at or stepping on the plate before a test in which the observers were not rewarded for eithe... Read More about Blind imitation in pigeons (Columba livia).

Further evidence that rats rely on local rather than global spatial information to locate a hidden goal: Reply to Cheng & Gallistel (2005) (2006)
Journal Article
McGregor, A., Jones, P., Good, M., & Pearce, J. (2006). Further evidence that rats rely on local rather than global spatial information to locate a hidden goal: Reply to Cheng & Gallistel (2005). Journal of experimental psychology. Animal behavior processes, 32(3), 314-321. https://doi.org/10.1037/0097-7403.32.3.314

Naive male Hooded Lister rats (Rattus norvegicus) were required to find a submerged platform in a right-angled corner between a long and a short wall of a pool in the shape of an irregular pentagon. Tests in a rectangular pool revealed a preference f... Read More about Further evidence that rats rely on local rather than global spatial information to locate a hidden goal: Reply to Cheng & Gallistel (2005).

Potentiation, overshadowing and blocking of spatial learning based on the shape of the environment (2006)
Journal Article
Pearce, J., Graham, M., Good, M., Jones, P., & McGregor, A. (2006). Potentiation, overshadowing and blocking of spatial learning based on the shape of the environment. Journal of experimental psychology. Animal behavior processes, 32(3), 201-214. https://doi.org/10.1037/0097-7403.32.3.201

Rats were trained in Experiment 1 to find a submerged platform in 1 corner of either a rectangular or a kite-shaped pool. When the walls creating this corner were a different color than the opposite walls, then learning about the shape of the pool wa... Read More about Potentiation, overshadowing and blocking of spatial learning based on the shape of the environment.

Spatial learning based on the shape of the environment is influenced by properties of the objects forming the shape. (2006)
Journal Article
Graham, M., Good, M., McGregor, A., & Pearce, J. (2006). Spatial learning based on the shape of the environment is influenced by properties of the objects forming the shape. Journal of experimental psychology. Animal behavior processes, 32(1), 44-59. https://doi.org/10.1037/0097-7403.32.1.44

In 3 experiments rats had to find a submerged platform that was located in a corner of a kite-shaped pool. The color of the walls creating this corner provided an additional cue for finding the platform in the shape + color condition but not the shap... Read More about Spatial learning based on the shape of the environment is influenced by properties of the objects forming the shape..