The effect of repeated testing on judgement biases in sheep

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 349-352

  Doyle, Rebecca E ^a,b   Vidal, Stephanie ^a   Hinch, Geoff N ^b   Fisher, Andrew D ^c   Boissy, Alain ^d   Lee, Caroline ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d UMR1213 HERBIVORES   (France)

Author keywords

Affective state; Cognition; Cognitive bias; Emotion; Judgement bias; Sheep

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; COGNITION; SHEEP; TRAINING;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; REPEAT PROCEDURE; SHEEP; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; CUES; DOGS; FEMALE; FOOD; JUDGMENT; LINEAR MODELS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REWARD; SHEEP; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 77649180253     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2010.01.019     Document Type: Article

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