Pretraining and discrimination reversal learning by rhesus monkeys
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Groups of five to seven macaques were trained on repeated reversals of a visual (or spatial) discrimination habitafter no pretraining, extended discrimination training, or repeated reversal training on spatial (or visual) cues. Neither sortof pretraining had a significant effect on reversal learning on the second cue. These results indicate that monkeys' capacity to develop generalized "win-stay, lose-shift" hypotheses may have been exaggerated in previous experiments.
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