Female rats display fewer optimistic responses in a judgment bias test in the absence of a physiological stress response

TH Barker, L Bobrovskaya, GS Howarth… - Physiology & …, 2017 - Elsevier
Metabolic cages are a type of housing used in biomedical research. Metabolic cage housing
has been demonstrated to elicit behavioural and physiological changes in rodents housed …

[HTML][HTML] Sex and age differences in cognitive bias and neural activation in response to cognitive bias testing

TE Hodges, GY Lee, SH Noh, LAM Galea - Neurobiology of stress, 2022 - Elsevier
Cognitive symptoms of depression, including negative cognitive bias, are more severe in
women than in men. Current treatments to reduce negative cognitive bias are not effective …

Mood state moderates the role of serotonin in cognitive biases

OJ Robinson, R Cools, MJ Crockett… - Journal of …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Reduction of the monoamine serotonin (5-HT) via the dietary manipulation of tryptophan
(acute tryptophan depletion; ATD) has been shown to induce negative cognitive biases …

[HTML][HTML] Diffusion modelling reveals the decision making processes underlying negative judgement bias in rats

CA Hales, ESJ Robinson, CJ Houghton - PLoS One, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Human decision making is modified by emotional state. Rodents exhibit similar biases
during interpretation of ambiguous cues that can be altered by affective state manipulations …

Optimism, pessimism and judgement bias in animals: A systematic review and meta-analysis

M Lagisz, J Zidar, S Nakagawa, V Neville… - Neuroscience & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Just as happy people see the proverbial glass as half-full,'optimistic'or
'pessimistic'responses to ambiguity might also reflect affective states in animals. Judgement …

Role of the medial prefrontal cortex in the effects of rapid acting antidepressants on decision-making biases in rodents

CA Hales, JM Bartlett, R Arban, B Hengerer… - …, 2020 - nature.com
Major depressive disorder is a significant and costly cause of global disability. Until the
discovery of the rapid acting antidepressant (RAAD) effects of ketamine, treatments were …

Environmental enrichment induces optimistic cognitive bias in rats

NM Brydges, M Leach, K Nicol, R Wright, M Bateson - Animal Behaviour, 2011 - Elsevier
People's affective or emotional state can alter their cognitive processing, biasing
interpretation of ambiguous stimuli. Those in a more positive state interpret such stimuli in a …

[HTML][HTML] Acute administration of lithium, but not valproate, modulates cognitive judgment bias in rats

R Rygula, J Golebiowska, J Kregiel, M Holuj… - …, 2015 - Springer
Rationale and objectives Both valproic acid (VPA) and lithium (LI) are well-established
treatments for therapy of intense and sustained mood shifts, which are characteristics of …

[HTML][HTML] Cognitive bias in ambiguity judgements: using computational models to dissect the effects of mild mood manipulation in humans

K Iigaya, A Jolivald, W Jitkrittum, ID Gilchrist, P Dayan… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Positive and negative moods can be treated as prior expectations over future delivery of
rewards and punishments. This provides an inferential foundation for the cognitive …

Emotional bias varies with stimulus type, arousal and task setting: Meta-analytic evidences

J Yuan, Y Tian, X Huang, H Fan, X Wei - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2019 - Elsevier
Emotional bias, which describes human's asymmetric processing of emotional stimuli,
consists of negativity bias (Increased response to negative over positive stimuli) and …