Valence of physical stimuli, not housing conditions, affects behaviour and frontal cortical brain activity in sheep

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 267, Issue , 2014, Pages 144-155

  Vögeli, Sabine ^a,b   Lutz, Janika ^a,b   Wolf, Martin ^c   Wechsler, Beat ^a   Gygax, Lorenz ^a  

^a FEDERAL FOOD SAFETY AND VETERINARY OFFICE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cognitive bias; Ear movements; Emotion; Functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS); Mood

Indexed keywords

DEOXYHEMOGLOBIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; BAYES THEOREM; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY POSITION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAR; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FRONTAL CORTEX; HEMODYNAMICS; MOOD; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SHEEP; AFFECT; ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN CIRCULATION; DOMESTIC SHEEP; EMOTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RANDOMIZATION; STIMULATION; TOUCH; VASCULARIZATION;

AFFECT; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; EAR; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SHEEP, DOMESTIC; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; TOUCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84898467778     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2014.03.036     Document Type: Article

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