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Attitudes to the use of animals in biomedical research: Effects of stigma and selected research project summaries (2023)
Journal Article
Cassaday, H. J., Cavenagh, L., Aluthgamage, H., Crooks, A., Bonardi, C., Stevenson, C. W., …Muir, C. (2023). Attitudes to the use of animals in biomedical research: Effects of stigma and selected research project summaries. PLoS ONE, 18(8), Article e0290232. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0290232

Three groups of participants (largely recruited from the UK) completed a survey to examine attitudes to the use of animals in biomedical research, after reading the lay (N = 182) or technical (N = 201) summary of a research project, or no summary (N... Read More about Attitudes to the use of animals in biomedical research: Effects of stigma and selected research project summaries.

Strain comparisons in inhibitory discrimination learning and novel object recognition procedures (2021)
Journal Article
Waite, L., Bonardi, C., Stevenson, C. W., & Cassaday, H. J. (2021). Strain comparisons in inhibitory discrimination learning and novel object recognition procedures. Physiology and Behavior, 240, Article 113557. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2021.113557

Strain differences in visual abilities and exploratory tendencies can confound rats’ performance in cognitive tests of learning and memory. In the present study we compared the performance of albino Wistar and pigmented Lister Hooded rats in appetiti... Read More about Strain comparisons in inhibitory discrimination learning and novel object recognition procedures.