A Case for the Interspecies Transfer of Emotions: A Preliminary Investigation on How Humans Odors Modify Reactions of the Autonomic Nervous System in Horses
| Autor: | Gün R. Semin, Alessandra Alterisio, Biagio DrAniello, Paolo Baragli, Antonio Lanata, Enzo Pasquale Scilingo, Gaetano Valenza, Mimma Nardelli, Anna Scandurra |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Lanata, Antonio, Nardelli, Mimma, Valenza, Gaetano, Baragli, Paolo, D'Aniello, Biagio, Alterisio, Alessandra, Scandurra, Anna, Semin, Gun Refik, Scilingo, ENZO PASQUALE |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_treatment
Emotions Biomedical Engineering Animal-assisted therapy Signal Processing 1707 Health Informatics Autonomic Nervous System 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Animal Assisted Therapy Heart Rate Heart rate medicine Animals Humans Heart rate variability 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Animal behavior Horses 050102 behavioral science & comparative psychology business.industry 05 social sciences Body odors humanities Autonomic nervous system Odorants business Neuroscience 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | EMBC |
| DOI: | 10.1109/embc.2018.8512327 |
| Popis: | We examined the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) activity of horses in response to human body odors (BOs) produced under happy and fear states. The ANS response of horses was analyzed in terms of Heart Rate Variability (HRV) features extracted in the frequency domain. Our results revealed that human BOs induce sympathetic and parasympathetic changes and stimulate horses emotionally, suggesting interspecies transfer of emotions via BOs. These preliminary findings open the way to measure changes in horse’s ANS dynamics in response to human internal states via human BOs, and allow us to better understand unexpected animal behavior that could compromise human-horse interaction. Moreover, it becomes possible to design more effective strategies to manage animals across a range of situations in which a strict human animal interaction is required, such as the well known Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT). |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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