BACKGROUND: Emotional information can facilitate or interfere with cognitive processes. In
this study, we examined the influence of emotional information in biasing performance and …

Judgement bias has potential as a measure of affective state in animals. The serotonergic
system may be one mechanism involved with the formation of negative judgement biases. It …

Automatic cognitive biases are important to theories of depression and reducing such biases
may contribute to therapeutic gains. The present study examined (1) whether it was possible …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: In cognitive theories of depression, processing biases
are assumed to be partly responsible for the onset and maintenance of mood disorders …

Rationale Stress-induced disruption of decision making has been hypothesized to contribute
to drug-seeking behaviors and addiction. Noradrenergic signaling plays a central role in …

Judgment bias tasks (JBTs) are considered as a family of promising tools in the assessment
of emotional states of animals. JBTs provide a cognitive measure of optimism and/or …

Rationale Converging evidence from studies with neurological patients and brain imaging
studies with healthy volunteers suggests that the capacity to make choices between actions …

Introduction The concept of 'depressive realism', that depression leads to more accurate
perception of causal control, has been influential in the field of depression research, but …

Judgment bias tests (JBTs) use responses to ambiguous stimuli to infer emotional states in
animals. However, with repeated testing, animals can learn to recognize the previously …

Rationale Animal models of anxiety such as the four-plates test (FPT) enable the detection of
an anxiolytic effect not only of benzodiazepines (BZDs) but also of other non-BZD anxiolytic …