ISSN:
0032-8332
Keywords:
Go/No-go discrimination
;
Acquisition
;
Transfer
;
Learning-set formation
;
Repeated use of stimuli
;
Chimpanzee
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Biology
Notes:
Abstract An adolescent female chimpanzee was trained to press a key in the presence of a computer-graphic geometric figure (“Go” stimulus) within 5 sec and not to press the key during 5-sec presentations of another figure (“No-go” stimulus) with food reinforcement. In the acquisition training, the accuracy of performance increased primarily as a result of learning to inhibit key presses in No-go trials. The chimpanzee acquired this “Go/No-go” visual discrimination task in 1,260 trials. She was then given 14 successive transfer problems. The results for these problems suggested that learning-set formation and repeated use of the same discriminative stimuli both influenced transfer to new problems.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02381116
