ArticleScientific reports2020
Dogs accurately track a moving object on a screen and anticipate its destination.
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- On the (limited) use of touchscreen-based behavioural and cognitive research with dogs: potential causes and future directions.Animal cognition · 2026Pooled it
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- Action observation reveals a network with divergent temporal and parietal cortex engagement in dogs compared with humans.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Screen interaction behavior in companion dogs: results from a dog owner survey.Applied animal behaviour science · 2024Article
- Visual perception of emotion cues in dogs: a critical review of methodologies.Animal cognition · 2023Review
- How to improve data quality in dog eye tracking.Behavior research methods · 2023Article
- Dogs' ability to follow temporarily invisible moving objects: the ability to track and expect is shaped by experience.Animal cognition · 2023Article
- Eye Tracking in Dogs: Achievements and Challenges.Comparative cognition & behavior reviews · 2023Article
- Selection for specific behavioural traits does not influence preference of chasing motion and visual strategy in dogs.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Neural Responses of Pet Dogs Witnessing Their Caregiver's Positive Interactions with a Conspecific: An fMRI Study.Cerebral cortex communications · 2021Article
- Current Understanding of the "Insight" Phenomenon Across Disciplines.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
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Abstract
The prediction of upcoming events is of importance not only to humans and non-human primates but also to other animals that live in complex environments with lurking threats or moving prey. In this study, we examined motion tracking and anticipatory looking in dogs in two eye-tracking experiments. In Experiment 1, we presented pet dogs (N = 14) with a video depicting how two players threw a Frisbee back and forth multiple times. The horizontal movement of the Frisbee explained a substantial amount of variance of the dogs' horizontal eye movements. With increasing duration of the video, the dogs looked at the catcher before the Frisbee arrived. In Experiment 2, we showed the dogs (N = 12) the same video recording. This time, however, we froze and rewound parts of the video to examine how the dogs would react to surprising events (i.e., the Frisbee hovering in midair and reversing its direction). The Frisbee again captured the dogs' attention, particularly when the video was frozen and rewound for the first time. Additionally, the dogs looked faster at the catcher when the video moved forward compared to when it was rewound. We conclude that motion tracking and anticipatory looking paradigms provide promising tools for future cognitive research with canids.
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