There were a few areas where one did see more than a token quantity of women-in the Pyne Hall Laundromat, the modern dance class, and the one small bathroom in the basement of McCosh Hall.
Moreover, the same two individuals for which tokens increased most the relative values between item pairs (Sandokan and Carlotta) were the best performers in a previous study on the estimation and combination of token quantities, where temporal discounting was at stake [12].
There are also clay accounting tokens (representing quantities of goods) and pottery; carved cylindrical seals; gold jewelry with semiprecious stones; terra cotta figurines; and metal, clay and ivory sculptures.
In the Token condition capuchins might have focused on the quality of the preferred token disregarding the quantities of the two alternatives, thus choosing this token more often than the corresponding food in the Food condition.
Both in the real (food) and in the symbolic (token) conditions, the quantities of the two items offered to the monkey for any given item pair varied from trial to trial (Table 1).
The rate of training of the present study is similar to that reported for capuchins learning to associate different type of tokens with different quantities of food [12], [13].
Indeed, in order to choose between different quantities of tokens corresponding to qualitatively different foods, capuchins should recall the association between each token and the corresponding food, evaluate the amount of each token array, estimate the relative value of the two offers, and finally make up their mind on which option to choose.
Another theory is that holders with large quantities of tokens were waiting to see what others did before casting their votes a hypothesis reinforced by how quickly the tally jumped from 110 million to 150 million today after nearly two weeks of sluggish movement.
Quantities of tokens are assigned to individual places.
In each session, capuchins faced binary choices between different quantities of three tokens (A B, B C, and A C).
