10.18453/rosdok_id00002791
Goursot, Charlotte
Charlotte
Goursot
http://d-nb.info/gnd/1220388556
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2885-2988
Laterality in pigs and its links with personality, emotions and animal welfare
Universität Rostock
2020
570 Life science
590 Zoological sciences
630 Agriculture
2020
en
http://purl.uni-rostock.de/rosdok/id00002791
urn:nbn:de:gbv:28-rosdok_id00002791-1
The study of laterality (i.e. asymmetries of brain and behaviour) is a potential non-invasive approach to gain insights into the common neural mechanisms underpinning both personality and emotions in animals. The hypotheses underlying this thesis state that the left (respectively the right) hemisphere regulates approach or positive (respectively avoidance or negative) emotions. The goal of this thesis was to study lateralized motor functions (Study 1) and their associations with personality indices (Study 2), and the effect of monocular viewing on emotional reactions (Study 3) in pigs.