Topic: texture-based visual stimuli

Learning general principles from single examples is a hallmark of high cognitive functions. This type of learning is computationally challenging for artificial agents, yet many animals such as primates can perform it with ease. To study one-exemplar generalization in the lab, it would be ideal to develop appropriate behavioral tasks in more tractable model organisms, such as rodents. Here we report that mice can perform one-exemplar generalization with difficult texture-based visual stimuli such as “leaves” and “rocks”. We trained mice to discriminate between single images from two texture cat