Discrimination of person odor by owned domestic dogs

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" Discrimination of person odor by owned domestic dogs "
Horowitz, Alexandra

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	935999
Doc. No	:	LA9m86s396
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Horowitz, Alexandra
Title & Author	:	Discrimination of person odor by owned domestic dogs [Article]\ Horowitz, Alexandra
Title of Periodical	:	International Journal of Comparative Psychology
Volume/ Issue Number	:	33
Date	:	2020
Abstract	:	In the field of dog cognition research, many studies assume that their subjects have multimodal recognition of their owner: Experiments using the face or voice of the person have proliferated. An outstanding question is whether owned domestic dogs represent the people with whom they live via smell. Olfaction is a principle sensory modality for dogs, and there is evidence that it is integral to recognition of conspecifics. In the current study, we investigated whether owned dogs spontaneously (without training) distinguished their owner's odor from a stranger's odor. Using natural body odor captured on a t-shirt, we found that dogs habituated to a familiar odor and dishabituated to an unfamiliar odor. This finding begins to answer the question of how dogs recognize and represent humans, including their owners.