ReviewAnimal cognition2020
What smells? Gauging attention to olfaction in canine cognition research.
Review in Animal cognition, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- From Control to Clue: Integrating Olfaction into the Object-Choice Task for Domestic Dogs (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Phenome-wide study connects behavioral genetics of odor detection dogs with temperament traits.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Dogs (Canis familiaris) distinguish conspecific emotional chemosignals.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Evaluating effects of aging on dog olfactory performance.GeroScience · 2026Article
- The Role of Olfaction in Dogs: Evolution, Biology, and Human-Oriented Work.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Review
- Distinguishing Doors and Floors on All Fours: Landmarks as Tools for Vertical Navigation Learning in Domestic Dogs (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Success in the Natural Detection Task is influenced by only a few factors generally believed to affect dogs' olfactory performance.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The Science and Social Validity of Companion Animal Welfare: Functionally Defined Parameters in a Multidisciplinary Field.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Review
- A novel task of canine olfaction for use in adult and senior pet dogs.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Extensive Connections of the Canine Olfactory Pathway Revealed by Tractography and Dissection.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022Article
- An Interdisciplinary Approach for Compulsive Behavior in Dogs: A Case Report.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2022Article
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Abstract
One of the challenges of animal cognition research is overcoming anthropocentric sensory biases-in particular, favoring visual information and cues despite the dominance of other sensory cues in many nonhuman research subjects. As such, it is particularly important for animal cognition researchers to explicitly mention steps taken to control for and attend to the sensory world of their study species. Dogs are well known for their reliance on olfaction, but the extent to which dog cognition and behavior research accounts for olfactory cues or incorporates olfactory controls is unknown. With this bibliographic study, we reviewed canine research published in the past 10 years (2008-2018) in 13 scientific journals and coded the 481 resulting papers for mentions of olfactory or odor cues or controls. Our findings indicate that despite widespread acceptance of the significance of olfaction to dogs, scientific methodology rarely takes olfactory information processing into account. Finally, we propose a simple rubric of recommended reporting of olfactory information in research contexts, with the aims to help attune researchers to the umwelt of their study subjects, and to enhance the methodological reproducibility of canine cognition research.
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