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
Behavioural and cardiac responses towards conspecific distress calls in domestic pigs (Sus scrofa)
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: behaviour, distress, emotion, heart rate, pig, vocalisation
2011
From operant learning to cognitive enrichment in farm animal housing: bases and applicability
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, cognition, farm animals, learning, motivation, reward
2009
Increasing farm animal welfare by positively motivated instrumental behaviour
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: animal welfare, cognitive enrichment, control, instrumental learning, motivation, predictability
2009
Assessment of positive emotions in animals to improve their welfare
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: animal welfare, cognitive appraisal, grooming, play, positive emotion, positive mood, vocalization
2007
Cognitive enrichment affects behavioural reactivity in domestic pigs
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: cognitive enrichment, learning, open field, pig, reward, welfare
2007
Exploration of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal function as a tool to evaluate animal welfare
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: acth, animal welfare, cattle, dexamethasone suppression test, fish, fox, fur animals, glucocorticoid hormones, hpa axis, mink, pig, poultry, stress
2007
Learning to learn during visual discrimination in group housed dwarf goats (Capra hircus)
Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology
Keywords: automated learning device, dwarf goats, learning set, learning to learn, visual discrimination
2007
Effects of attention and rewarded activity on immune parameters and wound healing in pigs
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: appraisal, environmental enrichment, health, immune system, pig, reward
2006
Automated recording of stress vocalisations as a tool to document impaired welfare in pigs
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, neural networks, pig, stress, vocalisation, welfare assessment
2004