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. 2005 Dec;12(6):1005-10.
doi: 10.3758/bf03206435.

Transfer of directed-forgetting cues across discrimination tasks with pigeons

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Transfer of directed-forgetting cues across discrimination tasks with pigeons

Karen L Roper et al. Psychon Bull Rev. 2005 Dec.

Abstract

Directed forgetting is shown as impaired performance on a memory test following an instruction that the presented items will not be tested. Experiments utilizing the delayed matching-to-sample (DMTS) task have demonstrated that this ability to actively control memory is present in animals; however, no study has yet confirmed that cues to forget established in one DMTS discrimination will successfully transfer to other discriminations. Lacking such evidence, it is not clear whether forgetting cues act as "higher level" task instructions or are represented more simply, perhaps as part of a sample-specific sequence of events. The present study revealed good transfer of the forget cue function in pigeons after prior training with the forget cues in a separate discrimination. This finding is discussed in relation to analogous experiments on occasion setting, in which training within more than one discriminative context has been shown to be critical to the transfer of a conditional relation.

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