Solving a Fingermaze on a touch monitor in chimpanzees

The subjects move a blue ball from one location on the monitor to a target, small square,
at another location on the monitor through a grid of obstacles that the ball cannot pass through

See abstract from recently published paper:

Iver. H. Iversen and Tetsuro Matsuzawa
Acquisition of navigation by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in an automated fingermaze task
Animal Cognition, 2001, 4, 179-192.
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