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I love strange research, so I just have to share this one!

Watanabe, S., Sakamoto, J. & Wakita, M. (1995). Pigeon's discrimination of paintings by Monet and Picasso, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 63(2), 165–174.

Abstract: Pigeons successfully learned to discriminate color slides of paintings by Monet and Picasso. Following this training, they discriminated novel paintings by Monet and Picasso that had never been presented during the discrimination training. Furthermore, they showed generalization from Monet's to Cezanne's and Renoir's paintings or from Picasso's to Braque's and Matisse's paintings. These results suggest that pigeons' behavior can be controlled by complex visual stimuli in ways that suggest categorization. Upside-down images of Monet's paintings disrupted the discrimination, whereas inverted images of Picasso's did not. This result may indicate that the pigeons' behavior was controlled by objects depicted in impressionists' paintings but was not controlled by objects in cubists' paintings.

Zelenka would be so proud! You can read the rest of the article here

In other news, I have decided to delete my travel journal --- I have saved the entries and will eventually post them here on this journal, but I've decided that I prefer to have everything in the same place. And don't worry, when I post those travel journal entries on this journal I'll backdate them so you won't all be spammed! :)
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