A primer on the use of computational modelling to investigate affective states, affective disorders and animal welfare in non-human animals.

Objective measures of animal emotion-like and mood-like states are essential for preclinical studies of affective disorders and for assessing the welfare of laboratory and other animals. However, the development and validation of measures of these affective states poses a challenge partly because th...

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Published in:Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience Vol. 24; no. 2; pp. 370 - 384
Main Authors: Neville, Vikki, Mendl, Michael, Paul, Elizabeth S., Seriès, Peggy, Dayan, Peter
Format: Journal Article
Published: Springer Nature Apr2024
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