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2000 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Development of a Multistimulus, Portable, and Programmable Conditioning Panel and Studies on Comparative Cognition

Research Project

Project/Area Number 10610067
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 実験系心理学
Research InstitutionChiba University

Principal Investigator

JITSUMORI Masako  Chiba University, Letters, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (80127662)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) SUTOU Noboru  Chiba University, Letters, Associate Professor, 文学部, 助教授 (40154611)
MIYANO Hisao  Chiba University, Letters, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (90200196)
Project Period (FY) 1998 – 2000
KeywordsBehavioral Research Method / Instruments / Comparative Cognition / Mathematical Learning-Models / concept / Categorization / Pigeon / Animal Psychology
Research Abstract

We developed a new model of the MPP (Multistimulus, Portable, and Programmable) conditioning panel for pigeons. Researches conducted by using the conditioning panel demonstrated the efficacy of the panel for behavioral studies in the field of comparative cognition.
1. Depelopment of a new MPP panel : The MPP panel can be attached to the subjects' home cages and allows a laboratory environment more similar to that in which free-ranging pigeons may normally learn during foraging. The new panel is designed to attain highly reliable food-dispenser function and to increase the range of available stimuli and discrimination procedures. Visual stimuli are presented beneath the horizontally aligned response keys with a miniature LC monitor affixed under the horizontal platform. Two different types of platforms, one with a single key and the other with two side-by-side keys, are replaceable. It was demonstrated that the apparatus is an efficient alternative to a conventional conditioning chamber
2. Studies by using the new MPP panel : Behavioral studies on categorization by pigeons revealed a prototype effect as the central tendency of categories and the formation of functionally equivalence classes, using morphed images of human faces as stimuli.
3. Behavioral studies on the "transitive inference" and the mathematical learning-models : Application of the mathematical learning-models revealed that the animal behavior referred to as "transitive inference" can be well explained by a simple learning mechanism rather than higher cognitive processes.

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All Publications (10 results)

  • [Publications] 実森正子 他: "新型ハト用MPP(multiple,portadle,and Programmuatle)条件づけパネル"動物心理学研究. 49. 171-180 (1999)

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  • [Publications] 実森正子: "再考:刺激等価性における反射性"動物心理学研究. 50. 199-201 (2000)

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  • [Publications] 牧野浩 他: "ハトにおけるカテゴリー学習とプロトタイプ効果"心理学研究. 71. 477-485 (2001)

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  • [Publications] Masako Jitsumori 他: "T.Matsuzawa (Ed.), Primate Origins of Human Loquiticu and Behavior"Springer-Verlag. 269-293 (2001)

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  • [Publications] J.Deliuo 他: "In C, Hiyis G L.Haber (Eds.), The Evolution of Cognition"The HIT Press, Limbridge. 103-122 (2000)

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  • [Publications] Masako Jitsumori et al.: "A new model of MPP (multistimulus, portable, and programmable) conditioning panel for pigeons."The Japanese Journal of Animal Psychology. 42. 171-180 (1999)

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  • [Publications] Hiroshi Makino et al.: "Category learning and prototype effect in pigeons : A study with morphed images of human faces."The Japanese Journal of Psychology. 71. 477-485 (2001)

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  • [Publications] Masako Jitsumori: "Reconsideration on Reflexivity."The Japanese Journal of Animal Psychology. 50. 199-201

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  • [Publications] Masako Jitsumori et al.: "Object recognition and object categorization in animals. In T.Matsuzawa (Ed.)"Primates Origins of Human Cognition and Behavior. Springer-Verlag. 268-293 (2002)

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  • [Publications] Delius, J.D.et al.: "Stimulus equivalencies through discrimination reversals. In C.Hayes and L.Huber (Eds.)"The Evolution of Cognition. The MIT Press, Cambridge. 103-122

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Published: 2002-03-26  

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