Learning-set formation by three species of macaque monkeys.

1 January 1966

journal article
research article
Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology

Vol. 61 (3) , 490-492
https://doi.org/10.1037/h0023268

Abstract

Stump-tailed, Philippine cynomolgus, and rhesus macaques (respectively, Macaca speciosa, M. irus, and M. mulatta) were given the same series of 10-trial object-discrimination problems in the WGTA [apparatus]. Although there were significant differences in rate of learning-set formation by the 3 species, differences in their performance over all problems and in their asymptotic performance were small and not reliable.