Sentences with phrase «dog cognition scientist»
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.
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But scientists know little about how smell and cognition are linked in animals that rely heavily on smell — such as dogs, elephants, and rats.
But over the past 15 years, the field of canine cognition has exploded as scientists have shown that dogs can outsmart chimpanzees in some tests and can even shed light on the evolution of our own intellect.
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.
An article by two Brazilian scientists in the April issue of the journal Animal Cognition points the way to the future for how dogs can communicate with people about such things as being hungry (Rossi, A. P. and C. Ades, 2008, A dog at the keyboard: using arbitrary signs to communicate requests, Animal Cognition 11: 329 - 338).
Scientist say this is because secondary emotions require self - awareness and a level of cognition that dogs may not have.