ArticleScientific reports2021
Housing and personality effects on judgement and attention biases in dairy cows.
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- Non-human contributions to personality neuroscience: From fish through primates - a concluding editorial overview.Personality neuroscience · 2024Article
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- Social contact from birth influences personality traits of group-housed dairy calves.JDS communications · 2023Article
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- Do cows see the forest or the trees? A preliminary investigation of attentional scope as a potential indicator of emotional state in dairy cows housed with their calves.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2023Article
- Use of qualitative behavioural assessment to investigate affective states of housed dairy cows under different environmental conditions.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2023Article
- Limitations of Spatial Judgment Bias Test Application in Horses (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
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Abstract
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 separate and interactive effects of personality and housing conditions on dairy cattle affective states. We assessed personality in 48 heifers using Open-Field, Novel-Object and Runway tests. Personality effects on responses to the JBT and to the ABT were examined when heifers were housed under reference conditions. Heifers were subsequently housed under positive or negative conditions, and housing effects on animal responses in both tasks were investigated while controlling for personality. A Principal Component Analysis revealed three personality traits labelled Activity, Fearfulness and Sociability. Under reference conditions, personality influenced heifers' responses to the JBT and to the ABT, therefore questioning the tasks' generalizability across individuals. Against expectations, housing did not influence responses to the JBT and heifers in the negative conditions looked at the threat later than heifers in the positive or reference conditions. More research is warranted to confirm the validity and the repeatability of the JBT and of the ABT as appropriate measures of affective states in dairy cows.
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