Kaufmann Angelica
Cognition in Action Unit, University of Milan, Italy.
Center for Mind & Cognition, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.
Curr Res Neurobiol. 2023 Jul 29;5:100104. doi: 10.1016/j.crneur.2023.100104. eCollection 2023.
The Animal Research Declaration is committed to establishing cohesive and rigorous ethical standards to safeguard the welfare of nonhuman primates (NHPs) engaged in neuroscience research (Petkov et al., 2022 this issue). As part of this mission, there is an expanding dialogue amongst neuroscientists, philosophers, and policymakers, that is centred on diverse aspects of animal welfare and scientific practice. This paper emphasises the necessity of integrating the assessment of animal sentience into the declaration. Animal sentience, in this context, refers to the recognized capacity that animals have for various kinds of subjective experience, with an associated positive or negative valence (Browning and Birch, 2022). Accordingly, NHP neuroscience researchers should work toward instituting a standardised approach for evaluating what can be termed "individual sentience profiles," representing the unique manner in which an individual NHP experiences specific events or environments. The adoption of this novel parameter would serve a triad of indispensable purposes: enhancing NHP welfare throughout research involvement, elevating the quality of life for NHPs in captivity, and refining the calibre of research outcomes.
《动物研究宣言》致力于建立连贯且严格的道德标准，以保护从事神经科学研究的非人类灵长类动物（NHPs）的福利（佩特科夫等人，2022年，本期）。作为这项使命的一部分，神经科学家、哲学家和政策制定者之间的对话不断扩大，其核心围绕动物福利和科学实践的各个方面。本文强调将动物感知评估纳入该宣言的必要性。在此背景下，动物感知是指动物具有各种主观体验的公认能力，并伴有相关的正性或负性效价（布朗宁和伯奇，2022年）。因此，NHP神经科学研究人员应努力建立一种标准化方法，用于评估可称为“个体感知概况”的内容，即代表个体NHP体验特定事件或环境的独特方式。采用这一新参数将实现三个不可或缺的目的：在整个研究过程中提高NHP的福利，提升圈养NHP的生活质量，并提高研究成果的质量。
