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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Learn Behav. 2020 Sep;48(3):301–321. doi: 10.3758/s13420-019-00406-4

Table 1.

Experimental overview. The Sessions and Trials column shows the scheduled numbers, but monkeys worked at their own pace, and so they ultimately determine the total trials based on how often they finished all trials within sessions.

Experiment Conditions Trials | Condition Sessions (Trials) Species Primary Research Questions
1 Signaled-Outcomes 120-trial Sessions 40 (120) Rhesus Monkeys (1) Is the failure to find a signal effect in capuchin monkeys due to their inattention to the delay signals?
Unsignaled-Outcomes 120-trial Sessions Capuchin Monkeys

2 Signaled-Hard 150-trial Phases 13 (600) Capuchin Monkeys (1) Will the signaling effect be present if the alternative to the risky option is a task where reward depends upon performance?
(2) Will monkeys avoid truncating delays on the unsignaled task following an incorrect response?
Signaled-Easy 150-trial Phases
Unsignaled-Hard 150-trial Phases
Unsignaled-Easy 150-trial Phases

3 Go-Stage: Signaled-Work 150-trial Phases 10 (600) Capuchin Monkeys (1) Will the monkeys selectively truncate delays on unsignaled judgment tasks when their performance determines reward?
Go-Stage: Signaled-Yoked 150-trial Phases
Go-Stage: Unsignaled-Work 150-trial Phases
Go-Stage: Unsignaled-Yoked 150-trial Phases

No-Stage: Signaled-Work 150-trial Phases 10 (600) (2) Will the monkeys continue to display the signaling effect on trials where they cannot truncate the delay?
No-Stage: Signaled-Yoked 150-trial Phases
No-Stage: Unsignaled-Work 150-trial Phases
No-Stage: Unsignaled-Yoked 150-trial Phases