Video abstract. Credit: Family Dog Project Research Group The dogs often approached the shape-matching object first but ultimately selected the texture -matching object, suggesting that first they ...

A robot manipulating objects while, say, working in a kitchen, will benefit from understanding which items are composed of the same materials. With this knowledge, the robot would know to exert a ...

For the study the researchers recruited 35 dogs who were trained to fetch a target object from a set of distractors. During testing, the dogs were presented with two choices: one matching the target ...

These results highlight dogs' reliance on different sensory modalities, similar to humans' only to some extent, when ...