Congratulations to first-year doctoral student Emma Cox on being awarded the Auburn University Department of Psychological Sciences research grant for her proposal “Vigilance Decrement in Explosives Detection Canines”!

Dog’s brains respond more to familiar human faces vs unfamiliar ones; they respond more to emotional vs neutral faces; and the strength of the brain's response is greater when they know that person better. Animal Cognition, Feb 2021 Link to paper: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Can you hear the difference between dogs? here is the chance to try yourself! Fill our survey: dogident.elte.hu and find out at the end how well you did, and then share it with your friends! 8) Thanks!

Hey Auburn University students, want to earn research course credit this summer to play with dogs(& robots!)? We are recruiting students to assist in a summer-long study looking at human-animal and human-robot interactions. Msg if interested!🐶🤖 Auburn SCPS Auburn Liberal Arts

New lab publication out today!

Thrilled to share that our grad students have been awarded a set of grants by the APDT Foundation to fund studies on proactive interference, vigilance decrement, inequity aversion, and odor learning in dogs. Exciting work ahead!

Our latest human fMRI study is out, examining functional changes in the brain after participating in an observational drawing course and suggests that drawing training may be beneficial to brain function for artists and non-artists🎨🧠 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

📣Calling all HAI experts! 📣 We are hiring a Senior Research Scientist Waltham Petcare Science Institute who will be responsible for leading HAI research, collaborating with academics & industry globally. 🐈 🐕 Feel free to reach out directly if you have any questions ⬇️ careers.mars.com/global/en/job/…

Congratulations to Jordan Smith on being awarded 2nd place in the poster competition at this year’s APDT conference!

Three papers from our group in this special issue on the topics of abstract concept learning and working memory in dogs and birds! 🐶 🐦

Congratulations to Emma Cox for successfully proposing her Master’s thesis, “Characterizing Sustained Attention Task Performance in Detection Dogs”!

Are you coming to virtual CO3 this year? Are you a student? Do you want your conference fees refunded? OF COURSE YOU DO! Become a member of Team CO3. Interested? Email Dr Jessica Bodily [email protected] #CO3_2022

Congratulations to Emma Cox for receiving the Animal Behavior Society David Tuber Applied Animal Behavior award for her proposal entitled "Characterizing Sustained Attention Performance by Detection Canines"! Way to go, Emma!

Congratulations to Jordan Smith on the successful defense of her Master’s thesis! We are very proud of all the hard work on this massive undertaking and are excited to see this project continue and expand. Stay tuned for results!

We are seeking participants for a new survey study on how the personalities of cohabitating pet dogs relate to the dog-dog and dog-owner relationship! For more information or to participate, click here: auburn.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cu…

We are at #CO3_2023 this week! Kicking off with two excellent talks from our lab on the dog-human bond by Jordan Smith and inattentional blindness by Emma Cox 🐶

Congratulations to Courtney Collins-Pisano for successfully proposing her master’s thesis “Investigating the Role of Post-Learning Activities on Memory Consolidation in Scent Detection Dogs” yesterday!