Publications by authors named "Maria Boada-Sana"
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- Laboratory rodent housing focuses on economics, ergonomics, hygiene, and standardization, leading to environments that limit natural behaviors and affect animal welfare negatively.
- Research involved varying environmental enrichment for mice across four levels to assess impacts on behavior, anxiety, growth, stress physiology, brain function, and emotional health.
- Results indicated that more enriched housing significantly improved welfare, although varying responses across different mouse strains made broad recommendations challenging.
Judgement bias tasks are promising tools to assess emotional valence in animals, however current designs are often time-consuming and lack aspects of validity. This study aimed to establish an improved design that addresses these issues and can be used across species. Horses, rats, and mice were trained on a spatial Go/No-go task where animals could initiate each trial.
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