Hope for the best or prepare for the worst? Towards a spatial cognitive bias test for mice.

Cognitive bias, the altered information processing resulting from the background emotional state of an individual, has been suggested as a promising new indicator of animal emotion. Comparable to anxious or depressed humans, animals in a putatively negative emotional state are more likely to judge a...

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Main Authors: Vanessa Kloke, Rebecca S Schreiber, Carina Bodden, Julian Möllers, Hanna Ruhmann, Sylvia Kaiser, Klaus-Peter Lesch, Norbert Sachser, Lars Lewejohann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4138164?pdf=render