This allowed us to determine whether individuals showed improvement by demonstrating a decreasing trend in number of errors made across reversals, and whether individuals had a side bias (i.e. significant effect of side assigned as the positive stimulus) that would affect performance.
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Environmental, individual and social traits of free-ranging raccoons influence performance in cognitive testing.
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Three raccoons showed significant improvement across serial reversals, and an additional four raccoons also showed a trend towards improvement characterized by a negative slope ( Table 2 ; Table S4 ).