Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
-
- Animal Studies (1)
- Cognitive Neuroscience (1)
- Comparative and Evolutionary Physiology (1)
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (1)
- Evolution (1)
-
- Medical Neurobiology (1)
- Medical Physiology (1)
- Medical Sciences (1)
- Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience (1)
- Neuroscience and Neurobiology (1)
- Other Animal Sciences (1)
- Other Neuroscience and Neurobiology (1)
- Physiology (1)
- Social and Behavioral Sciences (1)
- Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology (1)
- Veterinary Medicine (1)
- Veterinary Physiology (1)
- Zoology (1)
- Institution
- Publication
- Publication Type
Articles 1 - 2 of 2
Full-Text Articles in Organisms
Strong Inferences About Pain In Invertebrates Require Stronger Evidence, Edgar T. Walters
Strong Inferences About Pain In Invertebrates Require Stronger Evidence, Edgar T. Walters
Animal Sentience
Evidence for sentience in animals distantly related to humans is often sought in observations of behavioral and neural responses to noxious stimuli that would be painful in humans. Most proposed criteria for painful sentience in “lower” animals such as decapod crustaceans have no necessary links to the affective (“suffering”) component of pain. The best evidence for painful affect in animals is learned aversion to stimuli associated with noxious experience, and conditioned preference for contexts associated with relief from aversive consequences of noxious experience, as expressed in voluntary behavior. Such evidence is currently lacking for any invertebrate except octopus.
Autonomic Nervous System Reactivity In A Free-Ranging Mammal: Effects Of Dominance Rank And Personality, Elodie F. Briefer, James A. Oxley, Alan G. Mcelligott
Autonomic Nervous System Reactivity In A Free-Ranging Mammal: Effects Of Dominance Rank And Personality, Elodie F. Briefer, James A. Oxley, Alan G. Mcelligott
Elodie Briefer, PhD
Modulation of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity allows animals to effectively respond to internal and external stimuli in everyday challenges via changes in, for example, heart and respiration rate. Various factors, ranging from social such as dominance rank to internal such as personality or affective states can impact animal physiology. Our knowledge of the combinatory effects of social and internal factors on ANS basal activity and reactivity, and of the importance that each factor has in determining physiological parameters, is limited, particularly in nonhuman, free-ranging animals. In this study, we tested the effects of dominance rank and personality (assessed …