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peck (U.S.)

Known as: peck 
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Pigeons show same-different conceptualization after training with complex visual stimuli.
Eight pigeons were first trained to peck 1 button in the presence of 16 distinct 4 x 4 arrays of identical pictures and to peck a… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Soft commitment: self-control achieved by response persistence.
With reinforcement contingent on a single peck on either of two available keys (concurrent continuous reinforcement schedules) 4… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Behavioral variability and frequency-dependent selection.
In Experiment 1, two conditions were compared: (a) a variability schedule in which food reinforcement was delivered for the… 
Highly Cited
1980
Highly Cited
1980
Development of complex, stereotyped behavior in pigeons.
A pigeon's peck on one key moved a light down one position in a 5x5 matrix of lights, while a peck on another key moved the light… 
Highly Cited
1980
Highly Cited
1980
The role of contingencies and "principles of behavioral variation" in pigeons' pecking.
Staddon and Simmelhag's proposal that behavior is produced by "principles of behavioral variation" instead of contingencies of… 
Highly Cited
1977
Highly Cited
1977
A procedure for autoshaping the pigeon's key peck to an auditory stimulus.
Pigeons rapidly acquire a key-pecking response when 8-sec illuminations of a response key precede each presentation of grain… 
Highly Cited
1975
Highly Cited
1975
Transfer of hue matching in pigeons.
Pigeons were trained on a modified three-key matching-to-sample procedure, in which only one comparison key (rather than two) was… 
1975
1975
Behavioral contrast in the pigeon: a study of the duration of key pecking maintained on multiple schedules of reinforcement.
Pecks on an operant key were reinforced on either multiple variable-interval variable-interval or multiple variable-interval… 
Highly Cited
1972
Highly Cited
1972
Acquisition of Key-Pecking via Autoshaping as a Function of Prior Experience: "Learned Laziness"?
A group of pigeons that had previously received noncontingent food delivery acquired the key-peck response (in autoshape training… 
Highly Cited
1970
Highly Cited
1970
Superstitious key pecking after three peck-produced reinforcements.
The first three pecks on a response key by experimentally naive pigeons produced grain reinforcements. Thereafter, for… 
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