The primary goal of animal welfare science is to make an accurate assessment of an animal’s well-being at a given time. To facilitate this goal, animal welfare and severity assessments were developed to integrate information ...

We are constantly exposed to an abundance of visual information in our environment. Selective visual attention allows us to behave in a goal-directed and flexible manner in this crowded environment. However, we still do ...

Gene delivery tools play a key role in research and gene therapy. Since 1989, when the first trial in humans took place, the improvement of transduction effciency and safety gained enormous attention to increase the therapy ...

Making voluntary goal-directed arm movements is a basic ability of all primates. This act seems to be very simple - almost trivial - to us, but it involves a complex translation of sensory ...

Visual performance in the detection of luminance patterns is generally well matched to the behavior of retinal ganglion cells across the retina, after stimuli are appropriately scaled with retinal eccentricity for the size ...

Numerous anthropogenic chemicals and natural plant-derived products can mimic or disrupt the normal function of endogenous sex steroid hormones by direct interaction with their specific nuclear receptors. These compounds ...

The topic of this thesis is centered on the question of how cognition influences the processing of sensory information. The main part of this work consists of seven research articles and ...