Development of a cognitive testing apparatus for socially housed mother-peer-reared infant rhesus monkeys
| Autor: | Stephen J. Suomi, Ashley M. Murphy, Amanda M. Dettmer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
education.field_of_study biology Population Peer group Cognition Audiology biology.organism_classification Developmental psychology Cognitive test Behavioral Neuroscience Rhesus macaque Developmental Neuroscience Friedman test Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Cognitive development Psychology education Developmental Biology |
| Zdroj: | Developmental Psychobiology. 57:349-355 |
| ISSN: | 0012-1630 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/dev.21285 |
| Popis: | Though cognitive testing of infant monkeys has been practiced for the past 40 years, these assessments have been limited primarily to nursery-reared infants due to the confounds of separating mother-reared infants for assessments. Here, we describe a pilot study in which we developed a cognitive testing apparatus for socially housed, mother-peer-reared rhesus macaques under 1 year of age (Macaca mulatta) that allowed the infants to freely return to their mothers for contact comfort. Infants aged 151.2 ± 18.3 days (mean ± SEM; n = 5) were trained and tested on an object detour reach task. Infants completed training in 5.0 ± 0.2 days, and completed testing in 6.2 ± 0.9 days. Across 4 days of testing, infants improved to nearly errorless performance (Friedman test: χ(2) = 13.27, df = 3, p = 0.004) and learned to do the task more quickly (Friedman test: χ(2) = 11.69, df = 3, p = 0.009). These are the first cognitive data in group-housed, mother-peer-reared rhesus monkeys under 1 year of age, and they underscore the utility of this apparatus for studying cognitive development in a normative population of infant monkeys. |
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