A naturalistic environment to study visual cognition in unrestrained monkeys
| Autor: | Georgin Jacob, Kalathupiriyan A. Zhivago, Thomas Cherian, Harish Katti, Jhilik Das, S. P. Arun |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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genetic structures QH301-705.5 Science Macaque monkey primate Macaque gaze tracking General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Task (project management) law.invention cognitive neuroscience Cognition Touchscreen law biology.animal natural behaviors Animals Learning Biology (General) Social Behavior General Immunology and Microbiology biology General Neuroscience fungi General Medicine biology.organism_classification Visual cognition Tools and Resources Rhesus macaque social learning Macaca radiata observational learning Visual Perception Eye tracking Medicine Psychology Neuroscience Cognitive psychology Social behavior |
| Zdroj: | eLife, Vol 10 (2021) eLife |
| Popis: | Macaque monkeys are widely used to study vision. In the traditional approach, monkeys are brought into a lab to perform visual tasks while they are restrained to obtain stable eye tracking and neural recordings. Here, we describe a novel environment to study visual cognition in a more natural setting as well as other natural and social behaviors. We designed a naturalistic environment with an integrated touchscreen workstation that enables high-quality eye tracking in unrestrained monkeys. We used this environment to train monkeys on a challenging same-different task. We also show that this environment can reveal interesting novel social behaviors. As proof of concept, we show that two naive monkeys were able to learn this complex task through a combination of socially observing trained monkeys and solo trial-and-error. We propose that such naturalistic environments can be used to rigorously study visual cognition as well as other natural and social behaviors in freely moving monkeys. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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