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SUBMITTER: Hintze S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5865189 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hintze Sara S Melotti Luca L Colosio Simona S Bailoo Jeremy D JD Boada-Saña Maria M Würbel Hanno H Murphy Eimear E
Scientific reports 20180323 1
Judgement bias tasks are promising tools to assess emotional valence in animals, however current designs are often time-consuming and lack aspects of validity. This study aimed to establish an improved design that addresses these issues and can be used across species. Horses, rats, and mice were trained on a spatial Go/No-go task where animals could initiate each trial. The location of an open goal-box, at either end of a row of five goal-boxes, signalled either reward (positive trial) or non-re ...[more]