Assessing consistency in children’s and monkeys’ performance across computerized and manual detour problem tasks

The detour test is a widely used in comparative psychology that assesses various cognitive abilities, including inhibitory control. goal of this study was to assess the degree consistency performance human children and capuchin monkeys on manual computerized equivalent. Because testing more common research, it important determine whether version problem can provide measures general inhibition align with obtained from same subjects when given version. We found approached both tasks very differently also there no correlation between task within each species. This suggests caution needed considering one format or other use single measure