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Pigeons, portals, and Pacman: Insightful problem solving and navigation using a touchscreen video game.

Video games have been used in several studies to investigate problem solving. We present empirical findings from a redesigned touchscreen navigation "grid‐world" procedure resembling the classic video game PacMan (hereafter, "pacman") played by pigeons. Our objective was to develop a procedure to st...

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Published in:Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior Vol. 125; no. 2; pp. 1 - 25
Main Authors: Rodrigues, Rafael S., Kirkman, Cyrus, Garcia‐Mijares, Miriam, Blaisdell, Aaron P.
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Mar2026
Subjects:
Awareness
Problem solving
Video games
Pigeons
Navigation
Touch screens
Generalization
Maze puzzles
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost