Stimulus equivalence in the tactile modality

This experiment investigated stimulus equivalence relations purely in the tactile modality. Two 6-year-olds and one 7-year-old learned sets of conditional discriminations with both tactile samples and tactile comparisons. Through a series of tests, subjects demonstrated the emergence of equivalence classes with tactile stimuli. The experiment furthers the research on stimulus equivalence and illustrates the possibility of new methods of learning in the tactile modality.