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 Pigeon intelligence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Additionally pigeons are one of six species to pass the mirror test — which tests whether an animal recognizes its reflection as an image of itself — along with common chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, dolphins and humans.
Pigeons have featured in numerous experiments in comparative psychology, including experiments concerned with animal cognition, and as a result we have considerable knowledge of pigeon intelligence.
Pigeons have the capacity to share attention between different dimensions of a stimulus, but (like humans and other animals) their performance with multiple dimensions is worse than with a single stimulus dimension
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 Rock Pigeon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Current (2004) research in pigeons is widespread, encompassing shape and texture perception, exemplar and prototype memory, category-based and associative concepts, and many more unlisted here (see Pigeon intelligence and discrimination abilities of pigeons).
Pigeons' extraordinary navigation abilities are in part due to the fact that they are able to sense the Earth's magnetic field with tiny magnetic tissues in their head.
Pigeons are widely considered vermin, owing to concerns that they spread disease, damage property, cause pollution with their excrement, and drive out other bird species; they are sometimes dubbed sky rats or gutter birds.
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 Discrimination abilities of pigeons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
They were then able to generalize, and correctly discriminate between paintings of the two painters not previously shown, and even between cubist and impressionist paintings (cubism and impressionism being the two stylistic schools Picasso and Monet belong to).
In a later paper, Watanabe showed that if pigeons and human college students undergo the same training, their performance in distinguishing between Van Gogh and Chagall paintings is comparable.
Similar experiments had shown earlier that pigeons can be trained to distinguish between photos showing human beings and those that do not, and between photos showing trees and those that do not, among many other examples.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/discrimination_abilities_of_pigeons   (466 words)

  
 dove
Unlike most other birds, (but see flamingo), the doves and pigeons produce "crop milk", which is secreted by a sloughing of fluid-filled cells from the lining of the crop.
Pigeons and doves are stout-bodied birds with short necks and short slender bills with a fleshy cere.
To be referred to as a "pigeon" or a "dupe" suggests unwariness in the person deluded - especially used in the slang language of gambling - Etymology: French, from Middle French duppe
www.paloweb.com /wikipedia.asp?l=en&pages=dove   (914 words)

  
 Birds' Judgments of Number and Quantity
In the experiment on proportion discrimination with pigeons, the stimulus conditions described so far utilized stimuli in which the proportions of ‘correct’ color in the paired positive and negative stimuli were complementary.
Pigeons were trained, for instance, to approach a strip of cardboard on which there were two sets of grain that differed in number.
Since a non-linear discrimination function was obtained when behavioral scores were measured on a scale of percentage of correct choices, these behavioral measures were linearized by converting the scores to a logit scale (defined as ln(% correct/(100 - % correct)); Macmillan and Creelman, 1991).
www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu /avc/emmerton   (14185 words)

  
 Learning Theories Lecture Thirteen
Most pigeons usually are better than 90% most of the days of training.
Pigeons do have control of the contents of their working memory.
The idea was that if we could signal the pigeon that it does not need to remember the sample stimulus, because no comparison stimuli would occur, and the pigeon then "forgot" it, or dumped it from consciousness, we would have evidence that pigeons can also control what and when they will remember.
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 Cubism : Cubist
Pigeons have been trained to correctly distinguish between cubist and impressionist paintings; see discrimination abilities of pigeons for details.
And that she should be in the midst of it and have She could not cease weeping; and before she fell asleep she prayed would bring all to a happy issue.
It remains one of the most famous art forms today.
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 Models of Learning and Performance
The first pigeons were trained in a typical MTS procedure of requiring one peck, fixed ratio of one (FR1), to the sample to produce the comparison stimuli.
Pigeons were trained on 6 of these 12 displays.
Pigeons are predisposed to memorizing as opposed to relational learning, relative to primates such as rhesus monkeys (Wright, Santiago, Sands, and Urcuioli, 1984; Wright, Cook, and Kendrick, 1989).
www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu /avc/wright/default.htm   (6694 words)

  
 Pigeons, - Effect Measure: Et tu, pigeons?
Pigeons are the quintessential urban bird, considered both an endearing part of city life and an aggravation.
Historically, pigeons are descendants of the rock dove and were brought into The largest problem that pigeons cause is the tremendous amount of feces
Our loft has been flying competitive racing pigeons for over 25 years and has built a
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 RESEARCH - INTERESTS
The published data seem to indicate that birds have developed symmetry discrimination abilities, for example pigeons can learn to distinguish symmetry from asymmetry and then generalize this discrimination to novel stimuli.
It is not clear whether such abilities reflect the existence of an innate (rather than acquired) category for symmetry.
In animal visual perception, detection of symmetry is a crucial ability, since symmetry is inherent to most living creatures.
cprg.psy.unipd.it /symmetry.htm   (385 words)

  
 Impressionism
Pigeons have been trained to distinguish between cubist and impressionist paintings; see discrimination abilities of pigeons for details.
Impressionism is still widely practiced today, and a variety of successive movements were influenced by it.
All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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 pigeons - OneLook Dictionary Search
Phrases that include pigeons: carrier pigeons, cat among the pigeons, discrimination abilities of pigeons, gall of pigeons, no pigeons, more...
pigeons : Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
pigeons : Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
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 Pigeons discrimination abilities - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com
Pigeons discrimination abilities - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com
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 FAMOUS ARTIST PAINTINGS PRINTS AND ART MOVEMENT POSTERS
Eugene Boudin, Mary Cassatt, Gustave Caillebotte, Camille Corot, Edgar Degas, Henri de Fantin-Latour, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Pigeons have been trained to distinguish between cubist and impressionist paintings; see discrimination abilities of pigeons for details.
Pointillism is a style of painting in which non- primary colors are generated, not by the mixing of pigments in the palette nor by using pigments directly, but by the visual mixing of points of primary colors, placed in close proximity to each other.
Painters who showed in the Impressionist Artist exhibitions:
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A wonderful use of our tax dollars if you ask me. So next time you draw a bead on that pigeon head.
Ran across this tid bit RE:Pigeons, about the birds being trained to choose between art styles.
My bad- wanna send me money for the WWII pigeon memorial?
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 Rock Pigeon - Psychology Central
Current (2004) research in pigeons is widespread, encompassing shape and texture perception, exemplar and prototype memory, category-based and associative concepts, and many more unlisted here (see Pigeon intelligence and discrimination abilities of pigeons).
Pigeons' extraordinary navigation abilities are in part due to the fact that they are able to sense the Earth's magnetic field with tiny magnetic tissues in their head.
However, feeding pigeons is now forbidden in many cities, including some of these public places where feeding them was once common, such as Trafalgar Square.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Rock_Dove   (1008 words)

  
 Impressionism
Alfred Sisley Pigeon s have been trained to distinguish between cubist and impressionist paintings; see discrimination abilities of pigeons for details.
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Haber's Art Reviews: American Realism and Impressionism An article about the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1994.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Impressionism.html   (405 words)

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