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Animal-emotion in science | Ray Xin Lee | TEDxOIST


so who in this room has never
experienced any unclear and difficult
situation of course nobody like who in
this room has recently has recently
facing some difficulties please raise
your hand okay more so I hope my talk
today can provide you some positive
myself in this kind of situation so I’m
working on psychology and neuroscience
of animal behavior and on this topic
I always sync between my research and
the experience in my life
so toward a general understanding a case
is like this kindly Mouse here so there
is a cheese very close to it and also a
cat is here so can you tell what the
mouse is thinking right now probably
very hard for you and this is this kind
of situation is similar for sometimes
when you face a person but if in a case
you’ll observe the most wrong to a
cheese or escape away then you can start
demonstrate what the moss was thinking
and this kind of logic is actually a
whole scientists designed for a behavior
test two major animal emotion so for an
example as this design shown here it is
called light or pounds so it is a box
divided into two areas like areas and
talk areas and there is a small tool
between it and a lot of mouse to
transfer between the areas so if you sit
inside all topics and look to world like
area it looks something like this
so for most it afraid of somewhere with
light
but it also likes to hit poor wrong and
it is like you are sitting in a cave and
to look toward unknown walk and similar
logic scientists also have the ordered
design that is called elevated plus maze
so for elevated plus maze it is a cross
shape platform high above the ground and
there are two types of homes open homes
and clothes on so for clothes on
there are walls protected animal tool
sailing down and for open own there is
no war and if you stand on it it is
something look like this so you have a
good view surrounding as you stand on
observational tech but it is very danger
so for both of lists design there are
two component placed together so they
placed together and create an
environment with water most want with
what it don’t want and this is a
condition of anxiety so they use this
behavior case to major animal anxiety so
if animal shows stronger anxiety they
are expected to stay more in the safe
area like closed arms or a dock area
well this behavior has has been
developed for over 30 years and like
loss of validation on it but it remains
controversy and this is the case what
observe in my data so as you can see
here even I provide a same treatment to
a proof of mice place compared to other
controls they spend more time in the
light area but they spend less time in
Oklahoma
so this opposite result make the
interpretation of animal emotion
inconclusive if you view it from the
traditional way and as a researcher I
has an ism if that is caused by some
factor during my experiment or some
environmental factor but
finally this Perry tonsil result become
clear to me so I start to review the
literature of most anxiety and what I
found is that there are more reports
based on the results from elevated plus
maze land from the letterbox Solis
coincidences shocked me at the first
moment so the message to me is that
there is a important and fundamental
fundamental crescent height on Hydra
Peninsula surface like the topic here
and from latter on I start to do some
sort of experiment what happened or what
I expect if I put a depress mode in
Silas behaviour and also what I expect
to see if I put a fear mouse inside his
behavior test then I start to formulate
there are actually a wide possibility
for you to for the interpretation of
animal emotions so instead of looking at
the behavior and demonstrate the emotion
I start from the emotion try to provide
a complete and inclusive definition of
emotion like fear or anxiety and I come
up with a definition like fear is a
reaction to a street and anxiety is a
reaction to uncertainty so what I expect
is fear should increase with the
certainty over Street but the anxiety
should increase with the uncertainty of
an environment and by analyzing through
a possible probability distribution of
animal behaviors that shown in a
behavior test I analyzed how much the
behavior matched to
the inferred of salvation I expect like
based on this definition then soon least
opposite logic both of this result
although opposite from a traditional
view they are old points who works
supporting like a month the mice here
showed anxiety and what is more
surprisingly discovery is led actually
in both of this behavior test they are
actually two different psychological
feature fear and anxiety are a major in
different zone of this behavior casts
and based on this following this logic
you can repeat early useless behavior
test and take it as a thermometer of
emotions like detect the intrinsic to
the intrinsic stress development so from
my study and through Lee’s experience I
try to understand is there a way for
scientists to facing unclear and
difficult issue and here I show an
example from other study solar
researcher here play observe like
laboratory rats they help each other and
there are lots of psychological basis
like hands supported this observation
for example later still curiosity what
you are doing there and also like they
try to save read and pray with it for
songs also reward or just try to stop is
a long haul or more simply it is just by
coincident but from their first testing
they ruled out other possibility and
show led the read help each other is
most likely to be based on empathy as us
like human being and for other example
it is a study about consciousness so
consciousness for you may be something
it has long been a human history that we
try to have some understanding about a
physical substrate for consciousness and
people usually look at physical
phenomenon for example like brain
activity and try to correlate with their
consciousness but all these approach
failed to really answer some fundamental
question and the scientists here hissing
from an other direction
hissing is from his own conscious
experience and what are the incentives
as supported and what kind of physical
system can account for this property and
from this direction he developed a
theory that can even provide a precise
answer to some hard christian in a field
like what is consciousness and a white a
system can has can be conscious so from
this example it seems like there is a
pattern for scientists to facing unclear
and difficult situation in their life so
it is like there is a lock and you want
to open a lock peyote and if you cannot
insert a field from one direction you
will change the direction but if you try
many directions and non-muslim walks
land you may change your key but more
than a trail and arrow scientist lady’ll
ways problem by during hot late belief
so compared with autumn my said showing
in this table
scientists like important lead take a
balance between a strong defense and a
strong challenging on hot late belief so
in this sense science the value of
science is not a comparation
with order and also not confirmed by
other it is available for you
so in any situation wherever or whenever
you meet unclear and difficult situation
there is a space for signs and what we
can try to do is to change our
perspective lend defend and challenge
what we believe thank you [Applause]
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