Same–different categorization in rats
Open Access
- 9 March 2012
- journal article
- Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Learning & Memory
- Vol. 19 (4), 142-145
- https://doi.org/10.1101/lm.025437.111
Abstract
Same–different categorization is a fundamental feat of human cognition. Although birds and nonhuman primates readily learn same–different discriminations and successfully transfer them to novel stimuli, no such demonstration exists for rats. Using a spatial discrimination learning task, we show that rats can both learn to discriminate arrays of visual stimuli containing all same from all different items and transfer this discrimination to arrays composed of novel visual items. These results are consistent with rats’ engaging in same–different categorization. As such, they pave the way for investigations into the perceptual, cognitive, and neurobiological substrates of abstract categorization behavior.Keywords
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