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How the sheep brain integrates cues for social identity and the communication of emotion

Reference	BBS/E/B/0000L117
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Keith Kendrick
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors
Institution	Babraham Institute
Department	Babraham Institute Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	314,698
Status	Completed
Type	Institute Project
Start date	01/06/2004
End date	30/04/2009
Duration	59 months

Abstract

How is the brain organised to interpret and integrate social signals to allow simultaneous recognition of individuals and their emotional state? Sheep, like humans, have sophisticated face-recognition skills using special lateralised neural systems in the temporal lobe. These categorise faces primarily in terms of their behavioural and emotional significance and we now have evidence that sheep can detect emotional cues from human and sheep faces. This project will use behavioural and neuropharmacological approaches to establish how sheep use visual and vocal cues to recognise different emotional states in both sheep and humans. The main focus is to determine how interpreting these emotional cues are distinct from those interpreting identity, and how integration of the two occurs at the level of neural encoding.

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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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