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Repeating distractor features in visual search tasks enhances pigeons

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  • Animal Cognition
  • Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Comparative Psychology

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  • Visual search behavior is crucial for survival and is influenced by stimulus properties.
  • Understanding how animals learn and adapt search strategies is key to deciphering cognitive processes.
  • Within-session stimulus repetition is a common phenomenon that may impact learning and performance.

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  • To investigate the impact of within-session stimulus repetition on texture discrimination in pigeons.
  • To determine whether repeating distractor features or target features affects visual search accuracy.
  • To examine the persistence and potential mechanisms of stimulus repetition effects in avian visual search.

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  • Performance was measured by accuracy in target localization, with analyses of learning and retention effects.

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    • Repeating distractor features across trials significantly increased target localization accuracy compared to baseline.
    • Switching a repeated distractor feature to become the target feature impaired search performance.
    • The influence of repeated distractor features persisted for at least 60 trials post-learning.
    • Differential stimulus-outcome associations could lead to control by repeated target features.

    Conclusions:

    • Within-session stimulus repetition, particularly of distractor features, can enhance avian visual search efficiency.
    • The learning associated with repeated features is robust and can influence subsequent search behavior.
    • Avian visual search is controlled by a complex interplay of stimulus properties, learning, and potentially differential stimulus-outcome associations.