JOURNAL ARTICLE

A Psychological-Scaling Approach to Unraveling the Nature of Pigeons' Categorization of Natural Visual Objects (Updated December 22, 2025).

  • Published In: Psychology & Psychiatry Journal, 2026. P. 173 1 of 2

  • Database: Psychology Source 2 of 2

Abstract

The article focuses on research that explores animal cognition, specifically examining how pigeons learn to categorize complex rock-image categories relevant to geologic sciences. The study introduces a nonhuman high-dimensional psychological-scaling representation of visual objects, which is used to predict pigeons' category learning performance. By modeling pigeons' responses in a same-different discrimination task, the researchers create a psychological similarity space that parallels a similar model derived for humans, highlighting both similarities and critical differences in categorization patterns. This research aims to enhance understanding of cognitive processes in nonhuman species. [Extracted from the article]

Additional Information

  • Source:Psychology & Psychiatry Journal. 2026/01, p173
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Health and Medicine
  • Publication Date:2026
  • ISSN:1944-2718
  • Accession Number:190619637
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