Performance of Pigeons (Columba livia) on Maze Problems Presented on the LCD Screen: In Search for Preplanning Ability in an Avian Species
Performance of Pigeons (Columba livia) on Maze Problems Presented on the LCD Screen: In Search for Preplanning Ability in an Avian Species
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DOI：
10.1037/0735-7036.120.4.358
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发表时间：
2006-11-01
影响因子：
1.4
通讯作者：
Fujita, Kazuo
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作者：
Miyata, Hiromitsu;Ushitani, Tomokazu;Fujita, Kazuo
作者研究了鸽子（Columba livia）如何在LCD显示器上执行二维迷宫任务，以及鸽子在开始解决迷宫之前是否预先计划了解决方案。在训练了4只鸽子通过啄食将红色方块（目标）移动到蓝色方块（目标）之后，作者将它们暴露在各种以线条作为障碍的绕道任务中。引入了一个预览阶段，在此期间，鸽子不允许啄显示器。一组实验的结果表明，我们的鸽子成功地学会了解决这些任务，当障碍变得复杂时，它们开始采取有效的策略，并且它们可能预先计划其解决方案，至少在熟悉的，训练有素的任务上。
The authors examined how pigeons (Columba livia) perform on 2-dimensional maze tasks on the LCD monitor and whether the pigeons preplan the solution before starting to solve the maze. After training 4 pigeons to move a red square (the target) to a blue square (the goal) by pecking, the authors exposed them to a variety of detour tasks having lines as a barrier. A preview phase was introduced, during which the pigeons were not allowed to peck at the monitor. Results of a set of experiments suggest that our pigeons successfully learned to solve these tasks, that they came to take an efficient strategy as the barriers became complex, and that they possibly preplan its solution, at least on familiar, well-practiced tasks.