Dr. Juliane Kaminski, one of our Scientific Advisory Board members, has made a cool finding: dogs are more likely to sneak food from people when the lights are out. Kaminski, who is a lecturer and research in the Psychology department of the University of Portsmouth, found that dogs were four times more likely to steal...
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Five questions with… Locky Stewart
We’re kicking off a new series in our blog in which we introduce you to the world-class team of people (and dogs!) behind Dognition. Today, we ask five questions to Locky Stewart, Dognition’s Director of Research. What do you do at Dognition and how does that relate to your background? As the Director of Research,...
Continue reading...Why a dog’s vocabulary matters
In the personality questionnaire at the beginning of the Dognition Experience, we ask you how many words your dog knows. Human words, that is. It might take you a moment to count them on your fingers (and toes, if your dog knows a lot of words), but you could probably come up with an answer....
Continue reading...Ernie’s Charmed Life
I brag about my dog Ernie to anyone who will listen – the vet, folks at the dog park, or my friends and family (as any proud mama would). I think he is incredibly smart and the sweetest dog on earth — all 9.8 lbs of him. In September, I started working with Dognition, and...
Continue reading...Dognition and Citizen Science
One of the things that makes Dognition so dynamic and exciting is our use of Citizen Science. What’s Citizen Science? It’s research that can be conducted by anyone who has the time and interest, not just scientists with Ph.Ds and lab coats. Recently, citizen scientists have discovered new planets and helped researchers understand why babies...
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