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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 principle 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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This research was supported in part by Grant NAG2-438 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to Georgia State University and by HD-06016 from the National Institutes of Health. Additional support was provided by the College of Arts and Sciences of Georgia State University. The authors wish to acknowledge theoretical and technical contributions to this effort by William D. Hopkins, W. Kirk Richardson, and E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh. Preparation of this paper was facilitated by use of the Allan M. Schrier Commemorative Library of the Language Research Center, Georgia State University.
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Washburn, D.A., Rumbaugh, D.M. Testing primates with joystick-based automated apparatus: Lessons from the Language Research Center’s Computerized Test System. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers 24, 157–164 (1992). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03203490
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