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Despite the fact that pigeons in many situations show excellent interocular transfer of visual discrimination habits, there have been a number of reports of failure of transfer under certain training conditions. One of the most striking examples of failure of interocular transfer was reported by Levine (1945a, 1945b, 1952) using a modified Lashley jumping-stand. When the discriminanda were presented vertically in front of the pigeon, he found that birds trained monocularly on a brightness, colour or pattern discrimination showed no evidence of learning when tested with the ‘naive’ eye.
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Graves, J.A., Goodale, M.A. (1979). Do Training Conditions Affect Interocular Transfer in the Pigeon?. In: Russell, I.S., van Hof, M.W., Berlucchi, G. (eds) Structure and Function of Cerebral Commissures. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03645-5_6
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