Automated testing of cognitive performance in monkeys: Use of a battery of computerized test systems by a troop of semi-free-ranging baboons (Papio papio)

Fagot, Joël; Bonté, Elodie

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“…The study was conducted in a testing facility developed by the last author (Fagot & Bonté, 2010). The key feature of this facility is that baboons have free access to ALDM computerized testing booths that are installed in trailers next to their enclosure (see Fig.…”

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“…The test program allows an independent test regimen for each baboon, irrespective of the testing booth used (Fagot & Paleressompoulle, 2009). Grains of dry wheat are used as rewards (more details can be found in Fagot & Bonté, 2010;Fagot, Marzouki, Huguet, Gullstrand, & Claidière, 2015;and Fagot & Paleressompoulle, 2009). The monkeys could see their partners working in the adjacent workstations of each trailer, but were unable to see their motor responses on the screen: Observational learning was thus impossible.…”

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“…for instance, two individuals wearing GPS collar are considered associated when they are less than 100 m away. In this article, we describe a new method to study the sociality of nonhuman primate species on the basis of the automatic collection of proximity data during Automated Learning Device for Monkeys (ALDM; Fagot & Bonté, 2010; Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.3758/s13428-015-0686-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Fagot & Paleressompoulle, 2009) testing (a Bproximity network,^for short).…”

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Using Automated Learning Devices for Monkeys (ALDM) to study social networks

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Social network analysis has become a prominent tool to study animal social life, and there is an increasing need to develop new systems to collect social information automatically, systematically, and reliably. Here we explore the use of a freely accessible Automated Learning Device for Monkeys (ALDM) to collect such social information on a group of 22 captive baboons (Papio papio). We compared the social network obtained from the co-presence of the baboons in ten ALDM testing booths to the social network obtained through standard behavioral observation techniques. The results show that the co-presence network accurately reflects the social organization of the group, and also indicate under which conditions the co-presence network is most informative. In particular, the best correlation between the two networks was obtained with a minimum of 40 days of computer records and for individuals with at least 500 records per day. We also show through random permutation tests that the observed correlations go beyond what would be observed by simple synchronous activity, to reflect a preferential choice of closely located testing booths. The use of automatized cognitive testing therefore presents a new way of obtaining a large and regular amount of social information that is necessary to develop social network analysis. It also opens the possibility of studying dynamic changes in network structure with time and in relation to the cognitive performance of individuals.

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“…They lived in a social group of 30 individuals within a 700-m 2 enclosure and had free access to ten operant-conditioning test chambers, each equipped with a 19-in. touch screen, a food dispenser, and a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader that identified each baboon via a microchip implanted in each arm (Fagot & Bonté, 2010;Fagot & Paleressompoulle, 2009). A test program written with E-Prime Version 2 professional used the subjects' identity to determine its "last stopping point" in the sequence of trial presentations, and assigned the independent variables to be experienced by each subject during the trial.…”

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Analogical reasoning in baboons (Papio papio): Flexible reencoding of the source relation depending on the target relation

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Analogical reasoning is a cornerstone of human cognition, but the extent and limits of analogical reasoning in animals remains unclear. Recent studies have demonstrated that apes and monkeys can match relations with relations, suggesting that these species have the basic abilities for analogical reasoning. However, analogical reasoning in humans entails two additional cognitive processes that remain unexplored in animals. These include the ability to (1) flexibly reencode the relations instantiated by the source domain as a function of the relational properties of the target domain, and (2) to match relations across different stimulus dimensions. Using a two-dimensional relational matching-to-sample task, the present study demonstrates that these two abilities are in the scope of baboons, given appropriate training. These findings unveil the richness of the cognitive processes implicated during analogical reasoning in nonhuman primates and further reduce the apparent gap between animal and human cognition.

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“…Nous pensons qu'ils parviennent à réaliser cette tâche grâce à un mécanisme que l'on trouve chez un grand nombre d'espèces animales (dont Homo tologie du CNRS de Rousset-sur-Arc. Ces animaux sont entraînés à utiliser des écrans tactiles en libre accès, disposés en bordure de leur enclos [9]. Leur tâche consistait à appuyer sur un cercle à droite de l'écran quand un mot leur était présenté, et sur une croix à gauche de l'écran quand un non-mot apparaissait (Figure 1).…”

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