A total of 210 rats were trained to open a door inside a 50-sq.-cm. stimulus on a wall in a Grice-type apparatus. The door was made very hard to discriminate from the rest of the stimulus and the stimulus was frequently moved laterally to prevent rats from learning a specific movement pattern. Yet no generalization gradients were obtained when subgroups were tested on stimuli of other areas.
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