Administration of serotonin inhibitor p-Chlorophenylalanine induces pessimistic-like judgement bias in sheep

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 279-288

  Doyle, Rebecca E ^a,b   Hinch, Geoff N ^b   Fisher, Andrew D ^c   Boissy, Alain ^d   Henshall, John M ^a   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; Animal welfare; Cognitive bias; Emotion; Serotonin; Sheep

Indexed keywords

FENCLONINE; HYDROCORTISONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EWE; FEEDING; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; JUDGMENT BIAS; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PESSIMISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTONINERGIC TRANSMISSION; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EMOTIONS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FENCLONINE; JUDGMENT; MOTIVATION; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; SHEEP; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 79551488574     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2010.07.018     Document Type: Article

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