Measuring emotional processes in animals: the utility of a cognitive approach.

By Elizabeth S. Paul, Emma Harding, M. Mendl. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 2005

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Subfields: Sensory Systems, Social Psychology

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Larger, enriched cages are associated with 'optimistic' response biases in captive European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) (2008, background): “Based on these findings Paul et al. (2005) have argued that measures of cognitive bias my offer potential advantages as measures of affective state in animals.”
Performance on a categorisation task suggests that removal of environmental enrichment induces ‘pessimism’ in captive European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) (2007, background): “First, it is possible that cognitive bias may be better than some measures at assessing the valence (pleasantness versus unpleasantness) of an emotion as opposed to just the level of arousal (Paul et al 2005).”
Model organisms: The ascent of mouse: advances in modelling human depression and anxiety (2005, positive): “This modified approach could have important clinical relevance given the abnormally high reactivity of individuals with anxiety disorders, such as posttraumatic stress disorder, to over-generalized threat cues that inappropriately evoke memories of stimuli previously associated with traumatic event”
The challenge of challenge: Can problem solving opportunities enhance animal welfare? (2007, background): “The term emotion has been defined in numerous ways, but in this paper we will refer to emotions as responses to events which are likely to have evolved from basic mechanisms that gave animals the ability to avoid harm/punishment and seek valuable resources/reward (Paul et al., 2005).”
A spatial judgement task to determine background emotional state in laboratory rats, Rattus norvegicus (2008, background): “There are also many behavioural tests of fear and anxiety developed in neuroscience and psychopharmacology research (e.g. Ramos & Mormède, 1998; File & Seth, 2003; Paul et al., 2005), and tests that allow us to ‘ask’ an animal what it wants (preference tests (e.”
Cognitive bias in a non-human primate: husbandry procedures influence cognitive indicators of psychological well-being in captive rhesus macaques (2012, background): “A particularly promising development in this area has been the 45 emergence of ‘cognitive bias’ as an indicator of animal psychological wellbeing (Harding et 46 al 2004; Mendl & Paul 2004; Paul et al 2005; Mendl et al 2009, 2010a).”
Release from restraint generates a positive judgement bias in sheep (2010, background): “how they process, interpret, remember, and use information, may also provide information about their overall emotional state valence (Paul et al., 2005).”
Animal play and animal welfare (2011, background): “advances in the study of animal emotion and affective neurosciences (e.g. Berridge 2003; Dalgleish 2004; Paul et al. 2005; Rolls 2005; Mendl et al. 2010) have therefore not gone unnoticed by animal welfare science (Boissy et al.”
Environmental enrichment induces optimistic cognitive bias in rats (2011, background): “In recent years there has been a move towards using techniques involving interpretation of ambiguous stimuli in nonhuman animals (hereafter referred to as animals), in an attempt to assess their affective state (Paul et al. 2005; Mendl et al. 2009).”
The changing concept of animal sentience (2006, background): “There may also be interesting interactions between emotions and cognition (e.g. Paul et al., 2005).”
The Use of Judgement Bias to Assess Welfare in Farm Livestock (2015, background): “The rationale behind this task is that participants experiencing negative affect will be quicker at detecting a probe when it replaces a threat word than when it replaces a neutral word (Paul et al 2005).”
A review of behavioural methods to study emotion and mood in pigs, Sus scrofa (2014, background): “According to Prut and Belzung (2003) there are two aspects to the OFT which are likely to be a cause of anxiety for the animals: social isolation and agoraphobia.”
'Freedom from hunger' and preventing obesity: the animal welfare implications of reducing food quantity or quality (2009, background): “The question of how to measure animal welfare in general has been debated and reviewed elsewhere (e.g. Broom & Johnson 1993; Mason & Mendl 1993; Dantzer 2002; Paul et al. 2005; Botreau et al. 2007), and these discussions are relevant to the assessment of hunger.”
Cognitive enrichment affects behavioural reactivity in domestic pigs (2007, background): “Insofar the results of the present study fit well to approaches emphasising the important role of the reward system for animal welfare and postulating the usefulness of cognition–emotion links as a source of information on animal emotions and animal welfare states ( Spruijt et al., 2001; Paul et al”
Assessment of positive emotions in animals to improve their welfare. (2007, background): “This approach brings the study of individual differences in non-humans closer to what is done in humans [39,176,178].”
Behavioural and physiological assessment of positive and negative emotion in sheep (2009, background): “In addition, they can coincide with subjective, cognitive, physiological and behavioural reactions (Dantzer & Mormède 1983; Paul et al. 2005; Désiré et al. 2006).”