A novel continuous inhibitory-control task: variation in individual performance by young pheasants (Phasianus colchicus).

ABSTRACT: Inhibitory control enables subjects to quickly react to unexpectedly changing external demands. We assessed the ability of young (8 weeks old) pheasants Phasianus colchicus to exert inhibitory control in a novel response-inhibition task that required subjects to adjust their movement in space in pursuit of a reward across changing target locations. The difference in latencies between trials in which the target location did and did not change, the distance travelled towards the initially indicated location after a change occurred, and the change-signal reaction time provided a consistent measure that could be indicative of a pheasant's inhibitory control. Between individuals, there was a great variability in these measures; these differences were not correlated with motivation either to acc

SUBMITTER: Meier C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5640750 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature