Modern decision neuroscience offers a powerful and broad account of human behaviour
using computational techniques that link psychological and neuroscientific approaches to …

A better understanding of animal emotion is an important goal in disciplines ranging from
neuroscience to animal welfare science. The conscious experience of emotion cannot be …

The paradigm‐changing opportunities of biologging sensors for ecological research,
especially movement ecology, are vast, but the crucial questions of how best to match the …

Dopamine neurons of the ventral tegmental area (VTA DA) respond to food and social
stimuli and contribute to both forms of motivation. However, it is unclear whether the same or …

Synthesizing studies of parental care in a wide variety of animals, this book is the first
attempt to provide general answers to the following important questions: Why does the …

A technique for using patch giving up densities to investigate habitat preferences, predation
risk, and interspecific competitive relationships is theoretically analyzed and empirically …

Accurate assessment of animal emotion (affect) is an important goal in animal welfare
science, and in areas such as neuroscience and psychopharmacology. Direct measures of …

To study animal welfare empirically we need an objective basis for deciding when an animal
is suffering. Suffering includes a wide range ofunpleasant emotional states such as fear …

There is no consensus in the literature on a definition of emotion. The term is taken for
granted in itself and, most often, emotion is defined with reference to a list: anger, disgust …

One commonly cited benefit to animals that forage in groups is an increase in the probability
of detecting a predator, and a decrease in the time spent in predator detection. A …