Search
Skip to Search Results- 6Spetch, Marcia L.
- 5McMillan, Neil
- 4Madan, Christopher R.
- 2Du, Yu
- 2Mou, Weimin
- 2Sturdy, Christopher B.
-
2019-01-01
McMillan, Neil, Spetch, Marcia L.
In a two-stimulus visual discrimination choice task with a reversal in reward contingencies midway through each session, pigeons produce a surprising number of anticipatory errors (i.e., responding to the second-correct stimulus before the reversal) based on failure to inhibit timing-based...
-
2017-04-05
McMillan, Neil, Hahn, Allison H., Congdon, Jenna V., Campbell, Kimberley A., Hoang, J., Scully, Erin N., Spetch, Marcia L., Sturdy, Christopher B.
Chickadees are high-metabolism, non-migratory birds, and thus an especially interesting model for studying how animals follow patterns of food availability over time. Here, we studied whether black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) could learn to reverse their behavior and/or to anticipate...
-
Cue integration in spatial search for jointly learned landmarks but not for separately learned landmarks--Manuscript
Download2016-01-01
Mou, Weimin, Madan, Christopher R., Du, Yu, McMillan, Neil, Spetch, Marcia L.
We investigated how humans use multiple landmarks to locate a goal. Participants searched for a hidden goal location along a line between two distinct landmarks on a computer screen. On baseline trials, the location of the landmarks and goal varied, but the distance between each of the landmarks...
-
Cue integration in spatial search for jointly learned landmarks but not for separately learned landmarks--Supplementary materials
Download2016-01-01
McMillan, Neil, Spetch, Marcia L., Du, Yu, Madan, Christopher R., Mou, Weimin
We investigated how humans use multiple landmarks to locate a goal. Participants searched for a hidden goal location along a line between two distinct landmarks on a computer screen. On baseline trials, the location of the landmarks and goal varied, but the distance between each of the landmarks...
-
2016-02-17
McMillan, Neil, Sturdy, Christopher B., Pisklak, Jeffrey M., Spetch, Marcia L.
Animals make surprising anticipatory and perseverative errors when faced with a midsession reversal of reinforcer contingencies on a choice task with highly predictable stimulus–time relationships. In the current study, we asked whether pigeons would anticipate changes in reinforcement when the...
-
Fall 2014
In our everyday lives we often make decisions based on our prior experiences, whether it be choosing to park without putting money in the meter or deciding what to buy as a gift for a loved one. Inevitably, our decisions in the present are informed by our memories of experiences past. In this...
-
Visualizing and quantifying movement from pre-recorded videos: The spectral time-lapse (STL) algorithm
Download2013-12-23
Spetch, Marcia L., Madan, Christopher R.
When studying animal behaviour within an open environment, movement-related data are often important for behavioural analyses. Therefore, simple and efficient techniques are needed to present and analyze the data of such movements. However, it is challenging to present both spatial and temporal...