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Stunning pigs with nitrogen and carbon dioxide mixtures: effects on animal welfare and meat quality

open access: yesAnimal, 2012
The aim of this study was to assess the effect of exposure to the gas mixtures of 70% nitrogen (N2) and 30% carbon dioxide (CO2; 70N30C), 80% N2 and 20% CO2 (80N20C) and 85% N2 and 15% CO2 (85N15C) on aversion, stunning effectiveness and carcass, as well
P. Llonch   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Helping children think: Gaze aversion and teaching [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Looking away from an interlocutor's face during demanding cognitive activity can help adults answer challenging arithmetic and verbal-reasoning questions (Glenberg, Schroeder, & Robertson, 1998).
Warnock, Hannah   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Meta-Analysis of Empirical Estimates of Loss-Aversion

open access: yesSocial Science Research Network, 2020
Loss aversion is one of the most widely used concepts in behavioral economics. We conduct a large-scale interdisciplinary meta-analysis, to systematically accumulate knowledge from numerous empirical estimates of the loss aversion coefficient reported ...
Alexander L. Brown   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Negative Voters? Electoral Competition with Loss-Aversion

open access: yes, 2020
This paper studies the effect of voter loss-aversion in preferences over both candidate policy platforms and candidate valence on electoral competition.
Ben Lockwood (8627094)   +1 more
core   +6 more sources

Aversion-related effects of kappa-opioid agonist U-50488 on neural activity and functional connectivity between amygdala, ventral tegmental area, prefrontal cortex, hippocampus, and nucleus accumbens

open access: yesResearch Results in Pharmacology, 2023
Introduction: Among the various receptor systems in the brain, the opioid receptors have been the subject of extensive research due to their integral role in pain modulation, reward processing, and emotional regulation.
Konstantin Y. Kalitin   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Watch Me Improve—Algorithm Aversion and Demonstrating the Ability to Learn

open access: yesBusiness & Information Systems Engineering, 2020
Owing to advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and specifically in machine learning, information technology (IT) systems can support humans in an increasing number of tasks.
Benedikt Berger   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Exposure to hot and cold environments increases noradrenaline release in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis in rats

open access: yesNeuropsychopharmacology Reports, 2018
Aims Thermoregulatory responses in homeothermic animals, including humans, are classified into involuntary autonomous and voluntary behavioral thermoregulatory responses.
Saki Minami   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Corticostriatal Regulation of Acute Pain

open access: yesFrontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2017
The mechanisms for acute pain regulation in the brain are not well understood. The prefrontal cortex (PFC) provides top-down control of emotional processes, and it projects to the nucleus accumbens (NAc).
Erik Martinez   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Confirmation of a Causal Taar1 Allelic Variant in Addiction-Relevant Methamphetamine Behaviors

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2021
Sensitivity to rewarding and reinforcing drug effects has a critical role in initial use, but the role of initial aversive drug effects has received less attention.
Tamara J. Phillips   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Midbrain dopamine neurons signal aversion in a reward-context-dependent manner

open access: yeseLife, 2016
Dopamine is thought to regulate learning from appetitive and aversive events. Here we examined how optogenetically-identified dopamine neurons in the lateral ventral tegmental area of mice respond to aversive events in different conditions. In low reward
Hideyuki Matsumoto   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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