ArticleScientific reports2021
Macaque monkeys learn and perform a non-match-to-goal task using an automated home cage training procedure.
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- CalliCog is an open-source cognitive neuroscience toolkit for freely behaving nonhuman primates.Cell reports methods · 2025Article
- Reward monitoring in the frontopolar cortex of macaques.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Home-Cage Training for Non-Human Primates: An Opportunity to Reduce Stress and Study Natural Behavior in Neurophysiology Experiments.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Review
- Home-Enclosure-Based Behavioral and Wireless Neural Recording Setup for Unrestrained Rhesus Macaques.eNeuro · 2023Article
- Apex and ApeTouch: Development of a Portable Touchscreen System and Software for Primates at Zoos.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Dedicated Representation of Others in the Macaque Frontal Cortex: From Action Monitoring and Prediction to Outcome Evaluation.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2022Review
- Group-based, autonomous, individualized training and testing of long-tailed macaques (Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- A Kiosk Station for the Assessment of Multiple Cognitive Domains and Cognitive Enrichment of Monkeys.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2021Article
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Abstract
In neurophysiology, nonhuman primates represent an important model for studying the brain. Typically, monkeys are moved from their home cage to an experimental room daily, where they sit in a primate chair and interact with electronic devices. Refining this procedure would make the researchers' work easier and improve the animals' welfare. To address this issue, we used home-cage training to train two macaque monkeys in a non-match-to-goal task, where each trial required a switch from the choice made in the previous trial to obtain a reward. The monkeys were tested in two versions of the task, one in which they acted as the agent in every trial and one in which some trials were completed by a "ghost agent". We evaluated their involvement in terms of their performance and their interaction with the apparatus. Both monkeys were able to maintain a constant involvement in the task with good, stable performance within sessions in both versions of the task. Our study confirms the feasibility of home-cage training and demonstrates that even with challenging tasks, monkeys can complete a large number of trials at a high performance level, which is a prerequisite for electrophysiological studies of monkey behavior.
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