Sentence examples for monkeys to learn from inspiring English sources

21, 2011 • To the Editor: How ironic it is to read that we, the supposed being with higher intelligence, must cage and overfeed monkeys to learn about obesity, an epidemic that these same monkeys know how to avoid when left on their own.

Here, the focus was on the ability of juvenile rhesus monkeys to learn how to perform a battery of operant behavioral tasks while being treated chronically with MPH.

The strategy implementation task required monkeys to learn about two categories of objects.

However, the number of sessions we administered might not have been enough to allow monkeys to learn by operant conditioning that the screens prevent punishment.

The task is a form of conditional discrimination learning that requires monkeys to learn to execute sequences of choices from two arbitrarily defined categories of objects, each associated with a different behavioral strategy.

Performance in the reinforcer devaluation task requires monkeys to learn object discrimination problems, associate specific objects and food rewards together, and utilize information about the current value of the particular food rewards to guide their choice behaviour.

Monkey see, monkey do; but who exactly do monkeys watch to learn how to act?

For example, in a task in which monkeys have to learn which of two actions is the correct (rewarded) action within a block of trials, many ACC (but fewer LPFC) neurons responded to either positive or negative feedback, especially on the first trial of a block (when the feedback is particularly instructive as to which action to select on subsequent trials).

Ostensibly, the monkeys also had to learn that one object consistently contained food while the other was always empty.

STEVE FORBES: So, we're monkeys that need to learn new tricks?

In several cases, real-time predictions of limb kinematics have been used to allow both monkeys and humans to learn to control a computer cursor or robotic limbs with one, two, or three degrees of freedom [12], [13], [14], [15].