Considering side biases in vigilance and fear

Title
Considering side biases in vigilance and fear
Publication Date
2017
Author(s)
Rogers, Lesley
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9956-1769
Email: lrogers@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:lrogers
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
WellBeing International
Place of publication
United States of America
UNE publication id
une:22818
Abstract
Measures of vigilance and fear might be more consistently associated if side biases are taken into account, because the right side of the brain is specialised to detect predators and to express fear responses. In species with eyes positioned laterally and with relatively small binocular fields, this brain asymmetry is manifested as eye preferences because each eye sends most of its input to be processed in the opposite side of the brain. Hence, responses elicited by stimuli on the animal's left side are more likely be associated with fear than are responses to the same stimuli on the animal's right side.
Link
Citation
Animal Sentience: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Animal Feeling, 15(4), p. 1-3
ISSN
2377-7478
Start page
1
End page
3

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