Autonomic reactions indicating positive affect during acoustic reward learning in domestic pigs

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 481-489

  Zebunke, Manuela ^a   Langbein, Jan ^a   Manteuffel, Gerhard ^a   Puppe, Birger ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR FARM ANIMAL BIOLOGY FBN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Autonomic nervous system; Cognition; Emotion; Environmental enrichment; Heart rate variability; Operant conditioning; Sus scrofa

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SURVEY; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; COGNITION; LEARNING; PIG;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA; SUS SCROFA DOMESTICA;

EID: 78751617548     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.11.023     Document Type: Article

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