This article reviews recent research concerning dog-human relationships and how attributes that arise from them can be measured. It highlights the influence of human characteristics on dog behavior, and consequently, the dog-human bond. Of particular importance are the influences of human attitudes and personality. These themes have received surprisingly little attention from researchers. Ident...

Personality, or consistent individual differences in behavior, is well established in studies of dogs. Such consistency implies predictability of behavior, but some recent research suggests that predictability cannot be assumed. In addition, anecdotally, many dog experts believe that 'puppy tests' measuring behavior during the first year of a dog's life are not accurate indicators of subsequent...

for demonstration Abstract — This demo paper aims to demonstrate how dogs' behavior could help to design social behavior for robots. This demo paper aims to demonstrate how dogs' behavior could help to design social behavior for robots. Adopting a so-called “hearing robot” scenario we show that the dog-inspired leading behavior implemented in robots can be effective in human-robot interactions ...

Complex animal behaviors are built from dynamical relationships between sensory inputs, neuronal activity, and motor outputs in patterns with strategic value. Connecting these patterns illuminates how nervous systems compute behavior. Here, we study Drosophila larva navigation up temperature gradients toward preferred temperatures (positive thermotaxis). By tracking the movements of animals res...

This contribution describes a bio-inspired image filtering method using spiking neurons. Bio-inspired approaches aim at identifying key properties of biological systems or models and proposing efficient implementations of these properties. The neural image filtering method takes advantage of the temporal integration behavior of spiking neurons. Two experimental validations are conducted to demo...

Teaching owners how to train their dogs is an important part of maintaining the health and safety people. Yet we do not know what behavioral characteristics are relevant dog training or if owner cognitive abilities play a role in success. The aim this study determine which both predict success completing American Kennel Club Canine Good Citizen program. Before first session course, completed su...

Extensive genetic resources and a high-quality genome sequence position the dog as an important model species for understanding genome evolution, population genetics and genes underlying complex phenotypic traits. Newly developed genomic resources have expanded our understanding of canine evolutionary history and dog origins. Domestication involved genetic contributions from multiple population...

Anthropomorphism is the use of human characteristics to describe or explain nonhuman animals. In the present paper, we propose a model for a unified study of such anthropomorphizing. We bring together previously disparate accounts of why and how we anthropomorphize and suggest a means to analyze anthropomorphizing behavior itself. We introduce an analysis of bouts of dyadic play between humans ...

Fifty-one owner-dog pairs were observed in a modified version of M. D. S. Ainsworth's (1969) Strange Situation Test. The results demonstrate that adult dogs (Canis familiaris) show patterns of attachment behavior toward the owner. Although there was considerable variability in dogs' attachment behavior to humans, the authors did not find any effect of gender, age, living conditions, or breed on...

The most widely accepted hypothesis of the origin of the dog, Canis familiaris, is that the dog is a domesticated gray wolf, Canis lupus. This paper reviews the evidence for this conclusion, finds many unanswered questions and conceptual gaps in the wolf origin hypothesis, and explores the alternative hypothesis that the most likely ancestor of the domestic dog was a medium-size, generalist can...