There is an ongoing need to improve animal models for investigating human behavior and
its biological underpinnings. The domestic dog (Canis familiaris) is a promising model in …

Background Disease models are useful for prospective studies of pathology, identification of
molecular and cellular mechanisms, pre-clinical testing of interventions, and validation of …

Understanding dogs' perceptual experience of both conspecifics and humans is important to
understand how dogs evolved and the nature of their relationships with humans and other …

Humans have bred different lineages of domestic dogs for different tasks such as hunting,
herding, guarding, or companionship. These behavioral differences must be the result of …

The olfactory sense of the domestic dog is widely recognized as being highly sensitive with
a diverse function; however, little is known about the structure of its olfactory system. This …

Dogs have a rich social relationship with humans. One fundamental aspect of it is how dogs
pay close attention to human faces in order to guide their behavior, for example, by …

It is not possible to demonstrate that dogs (Canis familiaris) feel emotions, but the same is
true for all other species, including our own. The issue must therefore be approached …

The domestic canine (canis familiaris) is a growing novel model for human neuroscientific
research. Unlike rodents and primates, they demonstrate unique convergent sociocognitive …

Dogs and humans have lived together for thousands of years and share many analogous
socio-cognitive skills. Dog neuroimaging now provides insight into the neural bases of these …

Domestic dogs are highly social and have been shown to be sensitive not only to the actions
of humans and other dogs but to the interactions between them. We used the C-BARQ scale …