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    Behavioural Brain Research
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    Viewing conditions, like changing eyes or illumination, act as cues in pigeon learning. This explains how pigeons learn conflicting visual tasks while still transferring information between eyes.

    Area of Science:

    • * Animal behavior and cognition
    • * Visual perception and learning

    Background:

    • * Interocular transfer is the ability to learn a task with one eye and perform it with the other.
    • * Previous studies explored external cues but the role of viewing conditions was less understood.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • * To investigate how changes in viewing conditions and background cues affect interocular transfer in pigeons.
    • * To determine if viewing conditions can function as conditional cues in discrimination learning.

    Main Methods:

    • * Pigeons were trained on successive line orientation discriminations under monocular or binocular conditions.
    • * Background cues were manipulated using red or green illumination.
    • * Viewing conditions were altered by switching between binocular and monocular vision or between left and right eyes.

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    Main Results:

    • * Viewing conditions significantly influenced the pigeons' ability to perform the discriminations.
    • * Changes in viewing conditions acted similarly to external cues in guiding the pigeons' responses.
    • * Pigeons demonstrated interocular transfer despite variations in viewing conditions.

    Conclusions:

    • * Viewing conditions serve as effective cues in conditional discrimination learning for pigeons.
    • * This finding helps explain how animals with interocular transfer learn conflicting discriminations using different eyes.