Innovation, Inhibition and Flexibility in Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta).

ABSTRACT: Innovation is a key component of behavioral flexibility. When individuals are presented with novel problems, their ability to behave flexibly often relies upon their exploratory tendencies, motivational states and intrinsic traits. Studies of repeated innovation pose additional benefits to understand mechanisms of behavioral flexibility, including measuring persistence, exploration and inhibitory control when learned solutions are blocked. The multi-access box (MAB) paradigm tests repeated innovation without prior training and minimal habituation. We tested fifty adult captive female rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) with a MAB to evaluate the role of individual traits on repeated innovation and explore the relationship between inhibitory responses and innovation. We found that exploratory

SUBMITTER: Hubbard J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11955746 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature