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How the sheep brain integrates cues for social identity and the communication of emotion
Reference
BBS/B/07691
Principal Investigator / Supervisor
Professor Keith Kendrick
Co-Investigators /
Co-Supervisors
Institution
Babraham Institute
Department
Babraham Institute Department
Funding type
Research
Value (£)
674,582
Status
Completed
Type
Research Grant
Start date
01/06/2004
End date
31/03/2009
Duration
58 months
Abstract
How does the brain process social signals to recognise individuals and their emotional state simultaneously? Sheep, like humans, recognise faces using special lateralised neural systems in the brain. These categorise faces primarily in terms of their emotional significance and we have evidence that sheep can also detect emotional cues from faces. Behavioural, neuroanatomical, neuropharmacological and electrophysiological recording approaches will be used to establish how sheep use visual and vocal cues to recognise emotional states in sheep and humans. We will show which neural substrates and neurochemical pathways are involved in interpreting emotion as opposed to identity cues and how both are integrated at the level of neural encoding.
Summary
unavailable
Committee
Closed Committee - Animal Sciences (AS)
Research Topics
Neuroscience and Behaviour
Research Priority
X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative
X - not in an Initiative
Funding Scheme
X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme
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