Honored to have our paper featured on the cover of this month's issue of Hormones & Behavior! See below for more details on our study, which explored cognitive and behavioral associations with plasma oxytocin and fecal cortisol in dog puppies. #CanineScience 🐶🩸💩🧪

Unlike Skinner's superstitious pigeons, new research suggests that dogs understand the causal relationship and instead overimitate their caregiver for social reasons. Read the study here 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...#science#researchstudy#dog#caninescience

Dogs with prior experience of a task still overimitate their caregiver - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Dogs with prior experience of a task still overimitate their caregiver

A new study shows that gifted dogs can recall object names at least two years later. Read the study here 👉https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0208 #dog#dogs#science#caninescience#research

If that piques your interest, I hope you’ll give the paper a read and let me know what you think! It’s out now in Hormones & Behavior, with free access for the next month: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jYuC,QxXo...#BehavioralEndocrinology#CanineScience 7/8

We then looked for associations between hormone concentrations and performance on a battery of cognitive and behavioral tasks (conducted a few days after the samples were taken). #CanineScience#AnimalBehavior#ComparativeCognition 4/8

Basal plasma oxytocin & fecal cortisol concentrations are highly heritable and associated with individual differences in behavior & cognition in dog puppies. 🐶 Another dissertation paper out! 🎉 #CanineScienceauthors.elsevier.com/a/1jYuC,QxXo... 1/8