Pigeons Learning Pathology and Radiology (IMAGE)

University of California - Davis Health

Pigeons Learning Pathology and Radiology

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The pigeons' training environment included a food pellet dispenser, a touch-sensitive screen which projected the medical image, as well as blue and yellow choice buttons on either side of the image. Pecks to those buttons and to the screen were automatically recorded.

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Copyright Univ. Iowa/Wassermann Lab

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