Bestial boredom: a biological perspective on animal boredom and suggestions for its scientific investigation
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: *animal cognition, animal behaviour, animal welfare, boredom, environmental enrichment, motivation, novelty, psychobiology, time perception
2017
Physiological and hormonal responses to novelty exposure in rats are mainly related to ongoing behavioral activity
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: behavioral activity, body temperature, heart rate, novelty stress, plasma corticosterone, rat
2011
Evolution of wakefulness, sleep and hibernation: From reptiles to mammals
Publication/Journal: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
Keywords: basking behavior, basking behaviour, evolution of hibernation, evolution of nrem, evolution of rem, evolution of sleep, goal directed behavior, goal directed behaviour, risk assessment behavior, risk assessment behaviour, sleep phylogeny
2010
Is sleep in animals affected by prior waking experiences?
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, non-rem, rem, sleep, stress, wakefulness
2010
Animal models for information processing during sleep
Publication/Journal: International Journal of Psychophysiology
Keywords: animal models, conditioning, information processing, sensory gating, sleep, transfer ratio
2002
Behavioral, neurophysiological and evolutionary perspectives on unihemispheric sleep
Publication/Journal: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
Keywords: aquatic mammals, birds, functional lateralization, predator detection, reptiles, sleep function, sleep mechanisms, sleep regulation, slow-wave sleep, unihemispheric
2000
Facultative control of avian unihemispheric sleep under the risk of predation
Publication/Journal: Behavioural Brain Research
Keywords: birds, evolution, eye state, slow-wave sleep, unihemispheric, vigilance, vision
1999
Social stress induces high intensity sleep in rats
Publication/Journal: Neuroscience Letters
Keywords: electroencephalogram, sleep, slow-wave activity, social behavior, social behaviour, social defeat, stress
1997