MARCIA L. SPETCH

Recent Publications

Spetch, M.L., Rust, T.B. , Kamil, A.C. & Jones, J.E. (in press). Searching by Rules: Pigeons' landmark-based search according to constant bearing or constant distance. Journal of Comparative Psychology.

Friedman, A., Spetch, M.L. & Lank, I. (in press). An automated apparatus for presenting depth-rotated three-dimensional objects for use in human and animal object recognition research, Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers.

Spetch, M.L. & Friedman, A. (in press). Recognizing rotated views of objects: interpolation versus generalization by humans and pigeons. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.

Cheng, K. & Spetch, M.L. (2002). Spatial generalization and peak shift in humans. Learning and Motivation. 33, 358-389. Abstract

Cheng, K. & Spetch, M.L. (2001) Landmark-based spatial memory in pigeons. In R. G. Cook (Ed.), Avian visual cognition. http://www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/avc/cheng

Kelly, D.M., Bischof, W.F., Wong-Wylie, D.R., & Spetch, M.L. (2001) Detection of Glass Patterns by Pigeons and Humans: Implications for Differences in Higher Level Processing. Psychological Science.12, 338-342 Abstract

Kelly, D.M. & Spetch, M.L. (2001). Pigeons encode relative geometry. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes. 27, 417-422 Abstract

Spetch, M.L, Friedman, A, & Reid, S.. (2001) The Effect of Distinctive Parts on Recognition of Depth-Rotated Objects by Pigeons and Humans. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 30, 218-225. Abstract

Cheng, K. & Spetch, M.L. (2001). Blocking in landmark-based search in honeybees. Animal Learning & Behavior, 29, 1-9. Abstract

Kelly, R, & Spetch, M.L. (2000).Choice biases in delayed matching-to-sample duration with pigeons: Manipulations of ITI and delay illumination. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology,55B, 309-323. Abstract

Spetch, M.L., Kelly, D.M. & Reid, S. (1999). Recognition of objects and spatial relations in pictures across changes in viewpoint. Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive/ Current Psychology of Cognition., 18, 729-764. Abstract

Bischof, W.F., Reid, S.L., Wylie, D.R.W., & Spetch, M.L. (1999). Perception of coherent motion in random dot displays by pigeons and humans, Perception & Psychophysics, 61. 1089-1101. Abstract

Kelly, R., Spetch, M.L. & Grant, D.S. (1999) Influence of nonmemorial factors on manifestation of short-sample biases in choice and successive matching-to-duration tasks with pigeons. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes., 25, 297-307. Abstract

Kelly, D.M., Spetch, M.L. & Heth, C.D. (1998) Pigeons' encoding of geometric and featural properties of a spatial environment. Journal of Comparative Psychology. 112, 259-269. Abstract

Reid, S. & Spetch, M.L. (1998) Perception of Pictorial Depth Cues by Pigeons. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review 5, 698-704 Abstract

Spetch, M.L. & Cheng, K. (1998). A step function in pigeons' temporal generalization in the peak shift task. Animal Learning & Behavior, 26, 103-118. Abstract

McDevitt, M.A., Spetch, M.L., & Dunn, R. (1997). Contiguity and Conditioned Reinforcement in Probabilistic Choice. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 68, 317-327. Abstract

Spetch, M.L., Kelly, D.M., & Lechelt, D.P. (1997). Encoding of spatial information in images of an outdoor scene by pigeons and humans. Animal Learning & Behavior, 26, 85-102. Abstract

Cheng, K., Spetch, M.L., & Johnston, M. (1997). Spatial peak shift and generalization in pigeons. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 23. 469-481. Abstract

Lechelt, D.P. & Spetch, M.L. (1997). Pigeons' use of landmarks for spatial search in a laboratory arena and in digitized images of the arena. Learning and Motivation, 28, 424-445. Abstract

Cheng, K. & Spetch, M.L. (in press). Mechanisms of landmark use in mammals and birds. In S. Healy (Ed.). Spatial Representation in Animals. Oxford University Press. Conclusion

Grant, D.S., Spetch, M.L., & Kelly, R. (1997). Pigeons' coding of event duration in delayed matching-to-sample. In C.M. Bradshaw & E. Szabadi (Eds.), Time and Behavior: Psychological and Neuro-behavioral Analyses. Elsevier. Amsterdam: Elsevier/ North Holland, pp. 217-264.Conclusion

Spetch, M.L. Cheng, K., MacDonald, S.E., Linkenhoker, B.A., Kelly, D.M., & Doerkson, S.R. (1997). Use of landmark configuration in pigeons and humans: II. Generality across search tasks. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 111, 14-24. Abstract

Spetch, M.L., Cheng, K., & MacDonald, S.E. (1996). Learning the configuration of a landmark array, I: Touch-screen studies with pigeons and humans. Journal of Comparative Psychology,110, 55-68. Abstract

Cheng, K. Spetch, M.L., & Miceli, P. (1996). Averaging temporal duration and spatial position. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 22, 175-182. Abstract

Spetch, M. L., Grant, D.S. & Kelly, R. (1996). Procedural determinants of coding processes in pigeons' memory for duration. Learning and Motivation, 27, 179-199. Abstract

Spetch, M.L. (1995). Overshadowing in landmark learning: Touch-screen studies with pigeons and humans. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 21, 166-181. Abstract

Cheng, K. & Spetch, M.L. (1995). Stimulus control in the use of landmarks by pigeons in a touch-screen task. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 63, 187-201. Abstract

Belke, T.W., & Spetch, M.L. (1994). Choice between reliable and unreliable reinforcement alternatives revisited: Preference for unreliable reinforcement. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 62, 353-366.

Spetch, M.L. & Wilkie, D.M. (1994). Pigeons' use of landmarks presented in digitized images. Learning and Motivation, 25, 245-275. Abstract

Grant, D.S. & Spetch, M.L. (1994). The role of asymmetrical coding of duration samples in producing the choose-short effect in pigeons. Learning and Motivation, 25, 413-430. Abstract

Spetch, M.L., Mondloch, M.V., Belke, T., & Dunn, R. (1994). Determinants of pigeons' choice between certain and probabilistic outcomes. Animal Learning and Behavior, 22, 239-251. Abstract

Grant, D.S. & Spetch, M.L. (1994). Mediated transfer testing provides evidence for common coding of duration and line samples in many-to-one matching in pigeons. Animal Learning & Behavior, 22, 84-89. Abstract

Spetch, M.L. & Mondloch, M.V. (1993). Control of pigeons' spatial search by graphic landmarks in a touch-screen task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 19, 353-372. Abstract

Grant, D.S. & Spetch, M.L. (1993). Memory for duration in pigeons: Dissociation of choose-short and temporal-summation effects. Animal Learning & Behavior, 21, 384-390. Abstract

Spetch, M.L. & Grant, D.S. (1993). Pigeons' memory for event duration in choice and successive matching-to-sample tasks. Learning and Motivation, 24, 156-174. Abstract

Grant, D.S., & Spetch, M.L. (1993). Analogical and nonanalogical coding of samples differing in duration in a choice-matching task in pigeons. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 19, 15-25. Abstract