Background: Cognitive bias refers to emotional influences on cognition and provides a
cognitive measure of negativity-or positivity-bias through assessment of the behavioral …

Background Reliable measurement of affective state in animals is a significant goal of
animal welfare. Such measurements would also improve the validity of pre-clinical mental …

Decision-making under ambiguity in cognitive bias tasks is a promising new indicator of
affective valence in animals. Rat studies support the hypothesis that animals in a negative …

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 …

As in humans,'cognitive biases' in the way in which animals judge ambiguous stimuli may be
influenced by emotional state and hence a valuable new indicator of animal emotion. There …

Investigations of cognitive biases in animals are conceptually and translationally valuable
because they contribute to animal welfare research and help to extend and refine our …

Recent developments in the study of animal cognition and emotion have resulted in the
'judgement bias' model of animal welfare. Judgement biases describe the way in which …

At the start of the new millennium, the “cognitive bias” paradigm emerged as a new
approach to assessing animal emotion. In the animal welfare literature, cognitive bias …

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 …

Recent research in nonhuman animals highlights the exciting possibility that performance
on cognitive bias tasks might indirectly measure an individual's subjective, affective state …