At the beginning, the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) is a behavioral test developed in Humans. It allows to analyze cognitive performances (learning and memory).
The WCST for animals includes:
For the WCST for primates, we developed a specific dispenser which is composed of 27 small independent reward containers. This dispenser can deliver various and uncalibrated rewards such as pellets, dried fruits…etc.
For this task, 3 dispensers are used in serial, so that once the first dispenser is empty, the next reward will be distributed by the second dispenser. As a consequence, the system can distribute 81 rewards in a raw.
Our software POLY_WCST allows:
A software module calculates:
All the results are displayed in a Microsoft Excel compatible datasheet.