Responses of mink to auditory stimuli: Prerequisites for applying the 'cognitive bias' approach

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 291-297

  Svendsen, Pernille M ^a   Malmkvist, Jens ^a   Halekoh, Ulrich ^a   Mendl, Michael ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

American mink; Associative learning; Auditory discrimination; Cognitive bias; Neovison vison aka Mustela vison

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AUDITORY CUE; COGNITION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MUSTELID; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HABITUATION; LEARNING; MINK; NONHUMAN;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION; CUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; JUDGMENT; MINK; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS;

MUSTELA; MUSTELA VISON;

EID: 84868214759     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2012.09.010     Document Type: Article

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