"Dog cognition" refers to the mental abilities and processes that dogs possess, such as their ability to think, learn, and understand things. It explores how dogs perceive the world, solve problems, and communicate.
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Lots of work at
dog cognition centers around the world are attempting to grasp how much dogs really know.
The Horowitz
Dog Cognition Lab in NYC is investigating the different ways people and dogs play together, and we need your help (well, you and your dog's help).
Dr. Miklosi shares some of his latest research
on dog cognition, animal learning, and aging.
Co-author Dr Juliane Kaminski, an expert
in dog cognition who is also at the university, said: «Little is known about the early domestication of wolves and it is likely to have been a complex evolutionary process.
Other key elements of this year's Petfood Forum general sessions include roundtable discussions on insect protein, the next big trends for pet food, a CEO panel on attracting and retaining talent precede, and a closing keynote by
dog cognition scientist Brian Hare, PhD.
Dr. Alexandra Horowitz is an Adjunct Associate Professor of psychology at Barnard College and the Director of The
Horowitz Dog Cognition Lab, which conducts research on dog olfaction, play behavior, and attributions of emotions to dogs.
Scientists at the University's
Dog Cognition Centre are the first to find clear evidence dogs move their faces in direct response to human attention.
Kaminski, who's with the University of
Portsmouth Dog Cognition Center, and her colleagues assessed 24 dogs of various breeds, ages 1 to 12 years.
Horowitz, who runs Barnard College's
Dog Cognition Lab in New York, focuses on the development and potential of dogs» most impressive sense: scent.
Marc Hauser, a Harvard University biologist and the author of Wild Minds, says, «a lot of the work that's been done
on dog cognition has not really been careful science until maybe the last five to 10 years.»
With us will be two experts in the field
of dog cognition, Brian Hare, one of the world's foremost authorities on the canine mind and the author of the new book The Genius of Dogs, and Laurie Santos, who has just opened a dog lab at Yale University.
Scientists at the University's
Dog Cognition Centre are the first to find clear evidence dogs move their faces in direct...
«This study is a fabulous first go at experimentally comparing the ability of wolves and dogs to cooperate with their groupmates,» says Brian Hare,
a dog cognition expert at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, who was not involved with the work.
Ray Coppinger, a cognitive biologist at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, says the results are «exciting» but do not yet clinch the mystery of
dog cognition.
The study, «is a creative approach to trying to capture what's on a dog's mind,» says Alexandra Horowitz,
a dog cognition scientist at Barnard College in New York City who was not involved in the research.
«It shows that our dogs remember events much like we do, and [it] blows out of the water the old way that most scientists would characterize animal memory,» says Brian Hare,
a dog cognition expert at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, who was not involved in the study.
Cross-cultural differences like those observed should be considered when interpreting the results of studies on
dog cognition and behavior.
I have also written and published on dog training and
dog cognition.
If you want to be more scientific about it, you can purchase one of
those dog cognition tests like Dognition.
Alexandra Horowitz is the author of «Inside of a Dog» and runs
the the Dog Cognition Lab at Barnard College, Columbia University.
Alexandra Horowitz and
her Dog Cognition Lab are investigating play between dogs and people.
Hare's publications on
dog cognition are among the most heavily cited papers on dog behavior and intelligence.