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  • Animal behavior
  • Cognitive psychology
  • Behavioral neuroscience

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  • Equivalence relations are fundamental in understanding learning and cognition.
  • The property of reflexivity, matching stimuli to themselves, has been difficult to demonstrate independently.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To demonstrate reflexivity in pigeons without prior identity matching training.
  • To test theoretical predictions regarding emergent properties of stimulus equivalence.

Main Methods:

  • Pigeons underwent concurrent successive matching training on arbitrary tasks (e.g., hue-form, form-hue).
  • Post-training, pigeons were tested for form-form reflexivity (BB matching).
  • Additional experiments explored anti-reflexivity and the effects of reduced baseline training.

Main Results:

  • Pigeons demonstrated BB reflexivity, matching form stimuli to themselves.
  • A subset of pigeons showed emergent anti-reflexivity (oddity effect) under modified conditions.
  • Results varied based on the number of initial arbitrary matching tasks trained.

Conclusions:

  • Reflexivity can emerge in pigeons without explicit identity training, supporting Urcuioli's theory.
  • These findings contribute to understanding the properties of stimulus equivalence in non-human animals.
  • The study highlights the nuanced emergence of equivalence properties based on training paradigms.