You can't see, when I do: A study on social attention in guide dogs

Alterisio, Alessandra; Scandurra, Anna; Eatherington, Carla Jade; Marinelli, Lieta; D’Aniello, Biagio; Mongillo, Paolo

doi:10.1016/j.applanim.2019.06.005

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“…This change lowered the selective pressure on dogs ( Canis lupus familiaris ) for essential survival traits (Price 2002 ) but increased their socio-cognitive skills allowing them to adapt to the anthropogenic niche. Most of the success of dogs in our society relies on their increased social attention toward humans (Virányi et al 2004 ; Mongillo et al 2015 ; Alterisio et al 2019 ). Dogs can adequately understand both our verbal and non-verbal stimuli (Mills 2005 ), hundreds of words (Kaminski et al 2004 ; Pilley and Reid 2011 ) relying on specific neural correlates to process word meaning as well as intonation (Andics et al 2016 ).…”

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Sex differences in the behavioral responses of dogs exposed to human chemosignals of fear and happiness

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This research focuses on sex differences in the behavioral patterns of dogs when they are exposed to human chemosignals (sweat) produced in happy and fear contexts. No age, breed or apparatus-directed behavior differences were found. However, when exposed to fear chemosignals, dogs’ behavior towards their owners, and their stress signals lasted longer when compared to being exposed to happiness as well as control chemosignals. In the happy odor condition, females, in contrast to males, displayed a significantly higher interest to the stranger compared to their owner. In the fear condition, dogs spent more time with their owner compared to the stranger. Behaviors directed towards the door, indicative of exit interest, had a longer duration in the fear condition than the other two conditions. Female dogs revealed a significantly longer door-directed behavior in the fear condition compared to the control condition. Overall the data shows that the effect of exposure to human emotional chemosignals is not sex dependent for behaviors related to the apparatus, the owner or the stress behaviors; however, in the happiness condition, females showed a stronger tendency to interact with the stranger.

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“…Among the most relevant socio-cognitive skills are the high degree of attention toward humans (Alterisio et al 2019 ; Mongillo et al 2015 ; Virányi et al 2004 ), the ability to learn hundreds of words (Kaminski 2004 ; Pilley and Reid 2011 ), and the recognition of human body language as the main source of information (D’Aniello et al 2016 , 2017 ; Scandurra et al 2017 , 2018a ). Besides being skilled in interpreting some forms of human communication, dogs are also able to send effective signals to humans, for example seeking help when encountering an unsolvable problem (D’Aniello and Scandurra 2016 ; Miklósi et al 2003 ; Scandurra et al 2015 ).…”

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Is this love? Sex differences in dog-owner attachment behavior suggest similarities with adult human bonds

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Sex differences in the behavioral responses of Labrador Retriever dogs in the Strange Situation Test were explored. Behaviors expressed by dogs during seven 3-min episodes were analyzed through a Principal Component Analysis (PCA). The scores of factors obtained were analyzed with a Generalized Linear Mixed Model to reveal the effects of the dog’s sex and age and the owner’s sex. In Episode 1 (dog and owner) and 5 (dog alone), the PCA identified three and two factors, respectively, which overall explained 68.7% and 59.8% of the variance, with no effect of sex. In Episodes 2 (dog, owner, and stranger), 3 and 6 (dog and stranger), and 4 and 7 (dog and owner), the PCA identified four factors, which overall explained 51.0% of the variance. Effects of sex were found on: Factor 1 (distress), with lower scores obtained by females in Episode 2 and higher in Episode 3; Factor 2 (sociability), which was overall higher in females; Factor 3 (separation-distress), with females, but not males, obtaining higher scores when left with the stranger than when with the owner. Therefore, females were overall more social but seemed more affected than males by the owner’s absence. Parallels can be traced between our results and sex differences found in adult human romantic attachment, suggesting that the dog-owner bond has characteristics that are not found in the infant-mother relationship.

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Repeated separations between a future guide dog and its foster family modify stress-related indicators and affect dog’s focus

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You can't see, when I do: A study on social attention in guide dogs

Cited by 5 publications

References 35 publications

Sex differences in the behavioral responses of dogs exposed to human chemosignals of fear and happiness

Sex differences in the behavioral responses of dogs exposed to human chemosignals of fear and happiness

Is this love? Sex differences in dog-owner attachment behavior suggest similarities with adult human bonds

Repeated separations between a future guide dog and its foster family modify stress-related indicators and affect dog’s focus

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