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Three pigeons were trained on a stimulus matching discrimination in which the matching stimuli were red or violet and the nonmatching combinations were yellow and blue. Three other pigeons were trained with a matching red stimulus and the nonmatching combinations were red and violet. In both cases, generalization tests indicated that the birds learned to discriminate between the positive and negative stimuli on the basis of absolute color and not on the basis of the relation between the matching and nonmatching colors.
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1. This research was supported by Public Health Service Grant MH 13178-01.
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Malott, R.W., Malott, M.K., Pokrzywinski, J. et al. Concurrent stimulus matching and color discrimination. Psychon Sci 9, 53–54 (1967). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03330755
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