4 rhesus monkeys received intradimensional discrimination training initially at distant and then at near points on a circle-ellipse continuum. The training did not necessarily produce good stimulus control by test-stimulus differences smaller than the original training values. It was concluded that the original controlling stimulus-response relation did not correspond with the relations being evaluated by the generalization test.
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