Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta‐analyses in ecology and evolutionary biology: a PRISMA extension

RE O'Dea, M Lagisz, MD Jennions… - Biological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Since the early 1990s, ecologists and evolutionary biologists have aggregated primary
research using meta‐analytic methods to understand ecological and evolutionary …

Affective state recognition in livestock—artificial intelligence approaches

S Neethirajan - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Emotions or affective states recognition in farm animals is an
underexplored research domain. Despite significant advances in animal welfare research …

Bridging the gap: Human emotions and animal emotions

M Mendl, V Neville, ES Paul - Affective Science, 2022 - Springer
Our experiences of the conscious mental states that we call emotions drive our interest in
whether such states also exist in other animals. Because linguistic report can be used as a …

[HTML][HTML] Advanced methods and implementations for the meta-analyses of animal models: current practices and future recommendations

Y Yang, M Macleod, J Pan, M Lagisz… - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Meta-analytic techniques have been widely used to synthesize data from animal models of
human diseases and conditions, but these analyses often face two statistical challenges due …

Housing and personality effects on judgement and attention biases in dairy cows

L Kremer, JD Bus, LE Webb, EAM Bokkers, B Engel… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Affective states can be inferred from responses to ambiguous and threatening stimuli, using
Judgement Bias Tasks (JBTs) and Attention Bias Tasks (ABTs). We investigated the …

Assessing measures of animal welfare

H Browning - Biology & Philosophy, 2022 - Springer
There are many decision contexts in which we require accurate information on animal
welfare, in ethics, management, and policy. Unfortunately, many of the methods currently …

Environmental complexity positively impacts affective states of broiler chickens

MG Anderson, AM Campbell, A Crump, G Arnott… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Affective state can bias an animal's judgement. Animals in positive affective states can
interpret ambiguous cues more positively (“optimistically”) than animals in negative affective …

Assessing animal welfare: a triangulation of preference, judgement bias and other candidate welfare indicators

ES Paul, W Browne, MT Mendl, G Caplen, A Trevarthen… - Animal Behaviour, 2022 - Elsevier
To assess the welfare of captive animals, validated measures, so-called 'welfare indicators',
are required. We used a triangulation approach to investigate the extent to which different …

[HTML][HTML] Improving welfare assessment in aquaculture

H Browning - Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
While global aquaculture is rapidly expanding, there remains little attention given to the
assessment of animal welfare within aquacultural systems. It is crucial that animal welfare …

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

V Neville, M Mendl, ES Paul, P Seriès… - Cognitive, Affective, & …, 2024 - Springer
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 …