Canine Research and the Many Dogs Project
A bit about me
Canine Cognition and Human Interaction Lab
CCHIL Mission
We use biological and psychological approaches to understand dog behavior with the aim of improving how owners train, work with, and live with dogs
Dog impulsivity
Measuring owner perceptions
Dog Impulsivity Assessment Scale (DIAS)
Measuring impulsivity
Spatial impulsivity task
Original results
Our results
Study conclusions
Owners not good at predicting dog impulsivity
Did not replicate Brady et al., 2018
Lessons
What is big team science?
Large-scale collaborations where a large number of researchers across multiple independent research sites pool resources to conduct the same study across sites.
Why big team science?
ManyDogs Project
International research consortium of scientists with shared interest in canine behavior and cognition (manydogs.org)
ManyDogs Project
ManyDogs 1
Research Question
Do dogs treat human pointing as communicative cues?
Results
Site effects
Site differences
Lessons
Stress detection
Dog color vision
Dog color preference
Take home message
Thank you!
jstevens5@unl.edu dogcog.unl.edu unl-cchil @unl_cchil
