Visual Processing of Faces in Juvenile Western Lowland Gorillas without the Use of Training or Reinforcement: A Pilot Study

Authors: S. Chertoff, S. Margulis, J. D. Rodgers

Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition

Keywords: eye tracking, gorilla, human, visual processing

2018

A cage-based training, cognitive testing and enrichment system optimized for rhesus macaques in neuroscience research

Authors: A. Calapai, M. Berger, M. Niessing, K. Heisig, R. Brockhausen, S. Treue, A. Gail

Publication/Journal: Behavior Research Methods

Keywords: acquisition, animal, animal welfare, automated testing, baboons papio-papio, behavioral management, cognitive neuroscience, computerized test systems, cortex, environmental enrichment, experimental, housing, macaca-mulatta, mathematical, monkey, mt neurons, non-human primates, parietal, performance, psychology, receptive-field, representation

2017

Do aversive-based training methods actually compromise dog welfare?: A literature review

Authors: Joana Guilherme Fernandes, I. Anna S. Olsson, Ana Catarina Vieira de Castro

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behaviour, dog, training methods, welfare

2017

Does positive reinforcement training affect the behaviour and welfare of zoo animals? The case of the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta)

Authors: Caterina Spiezio, Stefano Vaglio, Consuelo Scala, Barbara Regaiolli

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal well-being, captive primate behaviour, lemur catta, training programme

2017

The effect of feeding enrichment in the milk-feeding stage on the cognition of dairy calves in a T-maze

Authors: Kelsey Horvath, Mariana Fernandez, Emily K. Miller-Cushon

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: cognition, dairy calf, enrichment, learning, t-maze

2017

Effects of environmental enrichment on decision-making behavior in pigs

Authors: F. Josef van der Staay, Johanna A. van Zutphen, Mirjam M. de Ridder, Rebecca E. Nordquist

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal welfare, barren environment, decision-making, enriched environment, hair cortisol, salivary cortisol, stress

2017

Female and male pigs’ performance in a spatial holeboard and judgment bias task

Authors: Sanne Roelofs, Rebecca E. Nordquist, Franz Josef van der Staay

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: cognition, judgment bias, memory, pigs, sex differences, spatial learning

2017

The glass is not yet half empty: agitation but not Varroa treatment causes cognitive bias in honey bees

Authors: H. Schluns, H. Welling, J. R. Federici, L. Lewejohann

Publication/Journal: Animal Cognition

Keywords: animal behavior, apidae, apis-mellifera hymenoptera, appetitive learning, aversive learning, behavioral sciences, colonies, destructor, formic acid, invertebrate emotion, invertebrate welfare, jacobsoni acari, judgment bias, olfactory conditioning, proboscis extension, proboscis extension reflex, zoology

2017

The ins and outs of the litter box: A detailed ethogram of cat elimination behavior in two contrasting environments

Authors: Ragen T. S. McGowan, Jacklyn J. Ellis, Miles K. Bensky, François Martin

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: cat, defecation, elimination behavior, litter box, urination, wellbeing

2017

Introducing Clicker Training as a Cognitive Enrichment for Laboratory Mice

Authors: C. Leidinger, F. Herrmann, C. Thoene-Reineke, N. Baumgart, J. Baumgart

Publication/Journal: Journal of Visualized Experiments

Keywords: 3rs, anxiety, balb/c, behavior, clicker training, enrichment, environmental enrichment, issue 121, mouse, multidisciplinary sciences, pigs, positive reinforcement training, rats, refinement, stress response, welfare, well-being

2017

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