Inhibitory Control and Response Selection in Problem Solving: How Cotton-Top Tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) Overcome a Bias for Selecting the Larger Quantity of Food

When presented with a choice between 1 and 3 pieces of food in a type of reversed contingency task, 4 cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) consistently chose the 3 pieces of food and received nothing, even though the choice of 1 piece would have yielded 3. However, in a task in which the tamarins received the […]