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Three groups of pigeons (n = 8) learned a successive discrimination, 538-nm S+ versus 576-nm S−, in one context, say, houselight and tone, and the reversal in another context, say, dark and noise. In Group 1, the single reversal paradigm was used; for Group 2, the problems alternated daily; and for Group 3, they alternated minute by minute. Wavelength generalization gradients obtained in both contexts revealed conditional control by context, which was weakest in Group 3.
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Thomas, D.R., Goldberg, H. Conditional discrimination learning by pigeons: The role of training paradigms. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 23, 256–258 (1985). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03329842
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