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Colour categorisation by domestic chicks
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posted on 2023-06-07, 21:04 authored by C D Jones, Daniel Colaco OsorioDaniel Colaco Osorio, R J BaddeleySpectral stimuli form a physical continuum, which humans divide into discrete non¿overlapping regions or categories that are designated by colour names. Little is known about whether non¿verbal animals form categories on stimulus continua, but work in psychology and artificial intelligence provides models for stimulus generalization and categorization. We compare predictions of such models to the way poultry chicks (Gallus gallus) generalize to novel stimuli following appetitive training to either one or two colours. If the two training colours are (to human eyes) red and greenish¿yellow or green and blue, chicks prefer intermediates, i.e. orange rather than red or yellow and turquoise rather than green or blue. The level of preference for intermediate colours implies that the chicks interpolate between the training stimuli. However, they do not extrapolate beyond the limits set by the training stimuli, at least for red and yellow training colours. Similarly, chicks trained to red and blue generalize to purple, but they do not generalize across grey after training to the complementary colours yellow and blue. These results are consistent with a modified version of a Bayesian model of generalization from multiple examples that was proposed by Shepard and show similarities to human colour categorization.
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Proceedings B: Biological SciencesISSN
1471-2954Publisher
Royal Society, TheExternal DOI
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1481Volume
268Page range
2077-2084Pages
8.0Department affiliated with
- Evolution, Behaviour and Environment Publications
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Main author. (Devised study and wrote most of the paper, key input from Baddeley on modelling)Full text available
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2012-02-06Usage metrics
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