Talk:Animal Cognition May 2018/@comment-35536700-20180509155238/@comment-35476160-20180509160609

They used two measures. One with the MAB, which was a ratio of the amount of time a subject spent in contact with a blocked solution (one they had already learned) relative to the total contact time. So more inhibitory control in this case would mean a lower score - If subjects spent more time on an unlearned solution they would be inhibiting previously learned responses.

In addition, a cylinder task was used to measure inhibitory control. Subjects would have more inhibitory control if they resisted the imulse to go towards a visible reward inside a clear cylinder, and instead took a detour and went around the cylinder to access the reward.