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  • Cognitive psychology
  • Animal behavior

Background:

  • Same-different categorization tasks are influenced by training array size in humans and animals.
  • Pigeon performance on two-item same-different tasks is inconsistent.
  • Conditional same-different categorization with two items has not been previously documented in pigeons.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To document successful two-item conditional same-different categorization in pigeons.
  • To investigate the influence of perceptual stimulus characteristics on pigeon categorization.
  • To explore if pigeons can perform these tasks without item repetition.

Main Methods:

  • Methodological modifications were implemented to facilitate pigeon performance.
  • Pigeons were trained on two-item conditional same-different categorization tasks.
  • Perceptual disparity between stimuli in different pairs was analyzed.

Main Results:

  • Pigeons successfully performed two-item conditional same-different categorization with high accuracy.
  • High accuracy was achieved without the necessity of item repetition during training.
  • Increased perceptual disparity between items in different pairs enhanced categorization performance.

Conclusions:

  • Pigeons are capable of high-accuracy two-item conditional same-different categorization.
  • Perceptual characteristics of stimuli are crucial factors in pigeon same-different judgments.
  • This research advances understanding of avian cognitive abilities in categorization.