ArticleAnimal cognition2021
Dog-human social relationship: representation of human face familiarity and emotions in the dog brain.
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- Dog brain representations of human facial expressions: Encoding happiness and differentiating specific negative expressions.iScience · 2026Article
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- A Conceptual Framework for the Co-Construction of Human-Dog Dyadic Relationship.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Review
- One Health, Two Species: Linking Domestication to Cognitive Aging in Dogs and Humans.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Unsupervised Canine Emotion Recognition Using Momentum Contrast.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Mechanisms of Social Attachment Between Children and Pet Dogs.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Review
- Domestic dogs as a comparative model for social neuroscience: Advances and challenges.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2024Review
- Two Separate Brain Networks for Predicting Trainability and Tracking Training-Related Plasticity in Working Dogs.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Functionally analogous body- and animacy-responsive areas are present in the dog (Canis familiaris) and human occipito-temporal lobe.Communications biology · 2023Article
- Visual perception of emotion cues in dogs: a critical review of methodologies.Animal cognition · 2023Review
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Abstract
This study investigated the behavioral and neural indices of detecting facial familiarity and facial emotions in human faces by dogs. Awake canine fMRI was used to evaluate dogs' neural response to pictures and videos of familiar and unfamiliar human faces, which contained positive, neutral, and negative emotional expressions. The dog-human relationship was behaviorally characterized out-of-scanner using an unsolvable task. The caudate, hippocampus, and amygdala, mainly implicated in reward, familiarity and emotion processing, respectively, were activated in dogs when viewing familiar and emotionally salient human faces. Further, the magnitude of activation in these regions correlated with the duration for which dogs showed human-oriented behavior towards a familiar (as opposed to unfamiliar) person in the unsolvable task. These findings provide a bio-behavioral basis for the underlying markers and functions of human-dog interaction as they relate to familiarity and emotion in human faces.
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