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Purpose

Cognitive test battery for minipigs.

Written for Sidse Arnfred (Copenhagen, Denmark).

The battery includes:

•	Reinforcement familiarization

•	Touchscreen training

•	Visual discriminations (simple and compound) with reversal and intradimensional and extradimensional set-shifting

•	Delayed matching and non-matching to sample

•	Spatial working memory

•	Three-choice serial reaction time test

•	Delayed matching to location

•	Progressive ratio schedule

Software requirements

Requires Whisker v2.0 or greater.

Data storage

•	Text-based output to disk.

•	ODBC data storage to a database (supplied).

Author

Rudolf Cardinal (rudolf@pobox.com).

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Mike Aitken and Shibley Rahman for helpful discussions on the ID/ED and PAL tasks!

Revision history

•	5-Sep-2002. Started.

•	28-Sep-2002. First version completed, with documentation and object definition system.