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Development of a cognitive bias methodology for measuring low mood in chimpanzees

There is an ethical and scientific need for objective, well-validated measures of low mood in captive chimpanzees. We describe the development of a novel cognitive task designed to measure ‘pessimistic’ bias in judgments of expectation of reward, a cognitive marker of low mood previously validated i...

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Autores principales: Bateson, Melissa, Nettle, Daniel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4465942/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26082875
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.998