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The discrimination of structure

Reference	S17198
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor John Martindale Pearce
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors	Professor Jonathan T. Erichsen, Dr David George, Professor Mark Good
Institution	Cardiff University
Department	Sch of Psychology
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	194,356
Status	Completed
Type	Research Grant
Start date	01/05/2002
End date	01/05/2005
Duration	36 months

Abstract

The ability of both rats and pigeons to solve discriminations will be investigated using experiments in which reward, and nonreward, are signalled by the manner in which a pattern of stimulation is structured. Thus a black square to the left of a white square might signal food and the reflection of this pattern will signal no food. There are four objectives to the proposal. First, to provide a convincing demonstration of a structural discrimination. Second, to determine the sort of information that can be used to solve a structural discrimination. Third, to evaluate theoretical explanations for the manner in which structural discriminations are solved. Fourth, to investigate the neural basis of structural discriminations.

Summary

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Committee	Closed Committee - Animal Sciences (AS)
Research Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	X - not in an Initiative
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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