Affective styles and emotional lateralization: A promising framework for animal welfare research
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: affective states, animal welfare, emotional reactivity, emotional regulation, hemispheric dominance, individuality, motivational tendencies, motor lateralization, personality, stable individual traits
2021
Is the rotarod test an objective alternative to the gait score for evaluating walking ability in chickens?
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, broiler, domestic fowl, gait score, motor co-ordination, walking ability
2019
The backtest in pigs revisited—Inter-situational behaviour and animal classification
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: backtest, behaviour tests, classification, coping, personality, pigs
2017
Vocal correlates of emotional reactivity within and across contexts in domestic pigs (Sus scrofa)
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: acoustic analysis, heart rate, personality, vocal communication
2017
Abnormal behaviour with a focus on stereotypies – indicators of suffering and impaired welfare?
Publication/Journal: Berliner Und Munchener Tierarztliche Wochenschrift
Keywords: abnormal behaviour, animal housing, animals, cognitive enrichment, domestic, environmental enrichment, farm, farm-animal welfare, feather pecking, laboratory mice, open-field behavior, oral stereotypies, pigs, repetitive behavior, veterinary sciences, weaned piglets
2016
Impact of structural and cognitive enrichment on the learning performance, behavior and physiology of dwarf goats (Capra aegagrus hircus)
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: cognitive enrichment, dwarf goat, open field, saliva cortisol, structural enrichment, visual-discrimination learning
2016
Social Support Modulates Stress-Related Gene Expression in Various Brain Regions of Piglets
Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Keywords: hpa axis, limbic brain regions, mRNA expression, pig, social buffering, social deprivation
2016
Effects of cognitive enrichment on behavioural and physiological reactions of pigs
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: animal welfare, cognitive enrichment, emotion, heart rate variability, operant conditioning, sus scrofa
2013
The emergence of emotional lateralization: Evidence in non-human vertebrates and implications for farm animals
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: emotion, farm animals, hemispheres, lateralization, vertebrates, welfare
2013
Autonomic reactions indicating positive affect during acoustic reward learning in domestic pigs
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: animal welfare, autonomic nervous system, cognition, emotion, environmental enrichment, heart rate variability, operant conditioning, sus scrofa
2011