Testing Primates with Joystick-based Automated Apparatus: Lessons from the Language Research Center's Computerized Test System

Overview

Journal Behav Res Methods Instrum Comput

Specialties Psychology
Social Sciences

Date 1992 Jan 1

PMID 11538700

Citations 41

Authors

D A WASHBURN

D M Rumbaugh

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Abstract

Nonhuman primates provide useful models for studying a variety of medical, biological, and behavioral topics. Four years of joystick-based automated testing of monkeys using the Language Research Center's Computerized Test System (LRC-CTS) are examined to derive hints and principles for comparable testing with other species--including humans. The results of multiple parametric studies are reviewed, and reliability data are presented to reveal the surprises and pitfalls associated with video-task testing of performance.

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