Thesis supervisor: Anna Vargáné Kis
Location of studies (in Hungarian): MTA TTK Kognitív Idegtudományi és Pszichológiai Kutatóintézet Abbreviation of location of studies: MTA
Description of the research topic:
Emotions and affective states have a considerable impact on an individual’s life and well-being, most commonly noticed when an emotion-related malfunction emerges1. Despite its importance, studying emotions in non-human animals remains a controversial issue. For the current project emotional states are defined as those elicited by rewards (stimuli that animals work to acquire) and punishers (stimuli that the animals work to avoid). This behaviourally grounded definition allows systematic study of animal affect despite lack of knowledge about whether such states, assumed to be instantiated in neural activity, are consciously experienced.
The project will focus on dogs, a species encultured in human society2, that naturally exhibits both human-analogue behaviours3 and socio-cognitive pathologies4. The project will investigate the impact of both positive and negative affective states in family dogs focusing on changes in 1) behaviour and cognition (incl. memory performance, inhibitory control and social behaviour), as well as 2) sleep physiology (incl. changes in sleep macrostructure, EEG spectrum, rapid eye movements and heart rate) elicited by emotional treatments.
Required language skills: english Number of students who can be accepted: 1
Deadline for application: 2019-05-31
2024. IV. 17. ODT ülés Az ODT következő ülésére 2024. június 14-én, pénteken 10.00 órakor kerül sor a Semmelweis Egyetem Szenátusi termében (Bp. Üllői út 26. I. emelet).
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