The hybrid delay task: Can capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) sustain a delay after an initial choice to do so?

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 94, Issue , 2013, Pages 45-54

  Paglieri, Fabio ^a   Focaroli, Valentina ^a   Bramlett, Jessica ^b   Tierno, Valeria ^a   McIntyre, Joseph M ^b   Addessi, Elsa ^a   Evans, Theodore A ^b   Beran, Michael J ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capuchins; Delay maintenance; Intertemporal choice; Self control

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; ERROR ANALYSIS; LABORATORY METHOD; PARADIGM SHIFT; PRIMATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CEBUS; CEBUS APELLA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; FEMALE; HYBRID DELAY TASK; LABORATORY; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NONHUMAN; SELF CONTROL; STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CEBUS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; REWARD;

CEBUS; CEBUS APELLA; HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 84875373003     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2012.12.002     Document Type: Article

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