Discrimination learning with vertical vs. horizontal stimulus relationships.
- 1 January 1956
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology
- Vol. 49 (1) , 80-83
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0045595
Abstract
One group of four rhesus monkeys was trained on an object-quality discrimination problem with the discriminanda in a vertical relationship while a control group of three monkeys learned in the customary horizontal plane. It was found that the plane of stimulus presentation did not significantly affect learning or transfer of the learning set after a 90[degree] rotation. The results of this study strengthen the conclusions of a previous report on spatial contiguity of cue and reward. Implications of these findings for the matching-from-sample task are discussed.Keywords
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