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Table 3 Description of findings from the cognitive test battery in juvenile monkeys

From: Prenatal iron deficiency and monoamine oxidase A (MAOA) polymorphisms: combined risk for later cognitive performance in rhesus monkeys

 

MAOA main effect

Diet effects in low-MAOA group

Diet effects in hi-MAOA group

Reward devaluation (8–11 months)

Slower learning in low-MAOA

Lower reward value of preferred food in ID than IS

 

Reward delay

   

Reward discounting

   

Fixed interval performance (14–18 months)

 

Fewer reinforcements obtained in ID than IS

 

Continuous performance test (14–18 months)

  

Fewer false alarms in ID than IS group

Puzzles (16–18 months)

 

Slower learning in ID than IS

 

Mazes (16–18 months)

Fewer mazes solved in low-MAOA

  
  1. Significant main effects of MAOA genotype were from two-way ANOVA, and significant effects of diet within the two genotype groups were based on planned post hoc tests for MAOA*Diet interactions