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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neurobiol Aging. 2023 Feb 23;126:91–102. doi: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2023.02.008

Table 1:

13 Task Comprising the PCTB, Number of Items and Trials (Based on Herrmann et al. 2007)

Physical Cognition
   Spatial Memory Location of hidden baited reward (1 item, 3 trials)
   Object Permanence Tracking of reward atter invisible displacement (3 items, 9 trials)
   Rotation Tracking location of reward after rotation (3 items,9 trials)
   Transposition Tracking rewards after location changes (3 items, 9 trials)
   Quantify Discrimination Discriminate quantity (1 item, 13 trials)
   Causality (Noise) Causal understanding of produced noise by hidden rewards (2 items, 6 trials)
   Causality (Visual) Causal understanding of appearance change by hidden rewards (2 items, 6 trials)
   Tool Use Use a lollipop stick to retrieve out of reach food (1 item, 2 trials)
   Tool Comprehension Understanding of functional and nonfunctional tool properties (5 items, 15 trials)
Social Cognition
   Comprehension Understanding communicative cues to select hidden food location (3 items, 9 trials)
   Production Producing communicative gestures in order to receive hidden food (1 item, 4 trials)
   Attention State Using communicative signals according to attention state of audience (4 items, 4 trials)
   Gaze Following Following an experimenters gaze direction toa target (3 items, 9 trials)

Note that each chimpanzee was tested twice on the PCTB tasks; thus, for the performance measures in this study, the number of trials administered to each subjects was twice as many as reported in the Table.