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The performance of five Eptesicus fuscus was studied across a series of nine successive reversals of a spatial discrimination problem. The Ss showed a decrease in mean number of errors across the reversals with an error peak on the third reversal. These results are consistent with the view that improvement across successive reversals (SDRs) is a behavioral indicator of taxonomic differences.
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Ellins, S.R., Masterson, F.A. Successive spatial discrimination reversals in the bat. Psychon Sci 25, 265–266 (1971). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03335868
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