Heterogeneity of performances in several inhibitory control tasks: male rhesus macaques are more easily distracted than females.

ABSTRACT: Inhibitory control, the ability to override a dominant response, is crucial in many aspects of everyday life. In animal studies, striking individual variations are often largely ignored and their causes rarely considered. Hence, our aims were to systematically investigate individual variability in inhibitory control, to replicate the most common causes of individual variation (age, sex and rank) and to determine if these factors had a consistent effect on three main components of inhibitory control (inhibition of a distraction, inhibition of an action, inhibition of a cognitive set). We tested 21 rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) in a battery of validated touchscreen tasks. We first found individual variations in all inhibitory control performances. We then demonstrated that males ha

SUBMITTER: Loyant L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8611350 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature