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  • Title: Some tests of response membership in acquired equivalence classes.
    Author: Urcuioli PJ, Lionello-DeNolf K, Michalek S, Vasconcelos M.
    Journal: J Exp Anal Behav; 2006 Jul; 86(1):81-107. PubMed ID: 16903494.
    Abstract:
    Pigeons were trained on many-to-one matching in which pairs of samples, each consisting of a visual stimulus and a distinctive pattern of center-key responding, occasioned the same reinforced comparison choice. Acquired equivalence between the visual and response samples then was evaluated by reinforcing new comparison choices to one set of samples, and examining generalization of these choices to the other samples. Three separate experiments found no evidence of such generalization, as indexed by performance on class-consistent versus class-inconsistent tests. Other tests showed that the pigeons' center-key response patterns during training had indeed served as a conditional cue for choice. These results do not support the hypothesis that different defined responses can become members of acquired equivalence classes.
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