{"pk":24599,"title":"Virtually anything can happen: investigating short-term memory in capuchin monkeys using virtual environments","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Computerised technology is an increasingly popular tool for cognitive testing with non-human animals and has numerous benefits, such as tighter control over stimuli presentation and recording responses. Recently, virtual environment (VE) software has been successfully implemented in cognitive research with non-human primates. In VEs, novel stimuli can be presented in innovative ways allowing us to study phenomena in novel ways unrestricted by real-world space. We present evidence from capuchin monkeys (Sapajus apella) in a delayed-response task within a VE presented on a touchscreen. We compared capuchins' short-term memory performance between a VE task and an equivalent physical task. Preliminary data shows an effect of delay on accuracy in the VE, as in the physical task. We show that VE are a feasible method for studying cognition with capuchin monkeys, offering an engaging way to study primate cognition in without the physical constraints that are often present when designing apparatuses.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Psychology; Animal cognition; Evolution; Memory; Computer-based experiment; Statistics"}],"section":"Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/40s43396","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Andreea","middle_name":"Miruna","last_name":"Miscov","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of St Andrews","department":""},{"first_name":"Emma","middle_name":"","last_name":"McEwen","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of St Andrews","department":""},{"first_name":"Amanda","middle_name":"","last_name":"Seed","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of St Andrews","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2024-01-01T19:00:00+01:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24599/galley/17761/download/"}]}