TY - JOUR AU - Koós-Hutás, Édua AU - Kovács, Barbara A. AU - Topál, József AU - Gergely, Anna TI - The face behind the caring voice: A comparative study on facial prosodic features of dog-, infant- and adult-directed communication JF - APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE J2 - APPL ANIM BEHAV SCI PY - 2024 SN - 0168-1591 DO - 10.1016/j.applanim.2024.106203 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34723423 ID - 34723423 N1 - Export Date: 22 March 2024 CODEN: AABSE Correspondence Address: Koós-Hutás, E.; Doctoral School of Psychology, Hungary; email: koos.edua@ppk.elte.hu LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Vargáné Kis, Anna AU - Radics, E. AU - Bolló, Henrietta AU - Topál, József TI - Methodological comparison of cancellation versus two-way choice spatial attention tests in humans and dogs JF - FRONTIERS IN VETERINARY SCIENCE J2 - FRONT VET SCI VL - 10 PY - 2023 PG - 8 SN - 2297-1769 DO - 10.3389/fvets.2023.1264151 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34401543 ID - 34401543 N1 - Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary ELTE-HUNREN NAP Comparative Ethology Research Group, Budapest, Hungary Export Date: 28 November 2023 Correspondence Address: Kis, A.; Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Hungary; email: vargane.kis.anna@ttk.mta.hu LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Langner, Lívia AU - Žakelj, Sabina AU - Bolló, Henrietta AU - Topál, József AU - Vargáné Kis, Anna TI - The influence of voice familiarity and linguistic content on dogs’ ability to follow human voice direction JF - SCIENTIFIC REPORTS J2 - SCI REP VL - 13 PY - 2023 IS - 1 SN - 2045-2322 DO - 10.1038/s41598-023-42584-2 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34163194 ID - 34163194 N1 - Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia ELTE-HUNREN NAP Comparative Ethology Research Group, Budapest, Hungary Export Date: 10 October 2023 Correspondence Address: Langner, L.; Research Centre for Natural SciencesHungary; email: langner.livia.kata@ttk.hu AB - Domestic dogs are well-known for their abilities to utilize human referential cues for problem solving, including following the direction of human voice. This study investigated whether dogs can locate hidden food relying only on the direction of human voice and whether familiarity with the speaker (owner/stranger) and the relevance of auditory signal features (ostensive addressing indicating the intent for communication to the receiver; linguistic content) affect performance. N = 35 dogs and their owners participated in four conditions in a two-way object choice task. Dogs were presented with referential auditory cues representing different combinations of three contextual parameters: the (I) ‘familiarity with the human informant’ (owner vs. stranger), the (II) communicative function of attention getter (ostensive addressing vs. non-ostensive cueing) and the (III) ‘tone and content of the auditory cue’ (high-pitched/potentially relevant vs. low-pitched/potentially irrelevant). Dogs also participated in a ‘standard’ pointing condition where a visual cue was provided. Significant differences were observed between conditions regarding correct choices and response latencies, suggesting that dogs’ response to auditory signals are influenced by the combination of content and intonation of the message and the identity of the speaker. Dogs made correct choices the most frequently when context-relevant auditory information was provided by their owners and showed less success when auditory signals were coming from the experimenter. Correct choices in the ‘Pointing’ condition were similar to the experimenter auditory conditions, but less frequent compared to the owner condition with potentially relevant auditory information. This was paralleled by shorter response latencies in the owner condition compared to the experimenter conditions, although the two measures were not related. Subjects’ performance in response to the owner- and experimenter-given auditory cues were interrelated, but unrelated to responses to pointing gestures, suggesting that dogs’ ability to understand the referential nature of auditory cues and visual gestures partly arise from different socio-cognitive skills. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Gácsi, Márta AU - Miklósi, Ádám AU - Topál, József TI - Comment on “Human-directed attachment behaviour in wolves suggests standing ancestral variation for human-dog attachment bonds” JF - ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION J2 - ECOL EVOL VL - 13 PY - 2023 IS - 9 SN - 2045-7758 DO - 10.1002/ece3.10514 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34158328 ID - 34158328 N1 - Cited By :1 Export Date: 26 September 2023 Correspondence Address: Gácsi, M.; ELKH-ELTE Comparative Ethology Research Group, Pázmány P. 1/c, Hungary; email: marta.gacsi@ttk.elte.hu LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Gergely, Anna AU - Gábor, Anna AU - Gácsi, Márta AU - Vargáné Kis, Anna AU - Czeibert, Kálmán AU - Topál, József AU - Andics, Attila TI - Dog brains are sensitive to infant- and dog-directed prosody JF - COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY J2 - COMMUN BIOL VL - 6 PY - 2023 IS - 1 PG - 9 SN - 2399-3642 DO - 10.1038/s42003-023-05217-y UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34106912 ID - 34106912 N1 - Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, ELTE-ELKH NAP Comparative Ethology research group, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary Department of Ethology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary Neuroethology of Communication Lab, Department of Ethology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary ELKH-ELTE Comparative Ethology Research Group, Budapest, Hungary ELTE NAP Canine Brain Research Group, Budapest, Hungary Export Date: 29 August 2023 Correspondence Address: Gergely, A.; Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Hungary; email: gergely.anna@ttk.hu AB - When addressing preverbal infants and family dogs, people tend to use specific speech styles. While recent studies suggest acoustic parallels between infant- and dog-directed speech, it is unclear whether dogs, like infants, show enhanced neural sensitivity to prosodic aspects of speech directed to them. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging on awake unrestrained dogs we identify two non-primary auditory regions, one that involve the ventralmost part of the left caudal Sylvian gyrus and the temporal pole and the other at the transition of the left caudal and rostral Sylvian gyrus, which respond more to naturalistic dog- and/or infant-directed speech than to adult-directed speech, especially when speak by female speakers. This activity increase is driven by sensitivity to fundamental frequency mean and variance resulting in positive modulatory effects of these acoustic parameters in both aforementioned non-primary auditory regions. These findings show that the dog auditory cortex, similarly to that of human infants, is sensitive to the acoustic properties of speech directed to non-speaking partners. This increased neuronal responsiveness to exaggerated prosody may be one reason why dogs outperform other animals when processing speech. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Bolló, Henrietta AU - File, Bálint AU - Topál, József AU - Vargáné Kis, Anna TI - Side bias behaviour in dogs shows parallels to the hemispatial neglect syndrome JF - APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE J2 - APPL ANIM BEHAV SCI VL - 263 PY - 2023 PG - 6 SN - 0168-1591 DO - 10.1016/j.applanim.2023.105921 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33935211 ID - 33935211 N1 - Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary Export Date: 21 September 2023 CODEN: AABSE Correspondence Address: Bolló, H.; Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Magyar tudósok krt 2., Hungary; email: bollo.henrietta@ttk.hu LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Gergely, Anna AU - Koós-Hutás, Édua AU - Filep, Lőrinc AU - Vargáné Kis, Anna AU - Topál, József TI - Six facial prosodic expressions caregivers similarly display to infants and dogs JF - SCIENTIFIC REPORTS J2 - SCI REP VL - 13 PY - 2023 IS - 1 SN - 2045-2322 DO - 10.1038/s41598-022-26981-7 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33588585 ID - 33588585 N1 - Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, 2 Magyar Tudósok Krt., Budapest, Hungary Doctoral School of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, 46 Izabella U., Budapest, Hungary Export Date: 24 February 2023 Correspondence Address: Gergely, A.; Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, 2 Magyar Tudósok Krt., Hungary; email: gergely.anna@ttk.hu AB - Parents tend to use a specific communication style, including specific facial expressions, when speaking to their preverbal infants which has important implications for children’s healthy development. In the present study, we investigated these facial prosodic features of caregivers with a novel method that compares infant-, dog- and adult-directed communication. We identified three novel facial displays in addition to the already described three facial expressions (i.e. the ‘ prosodic faces ’) that mothers and fathers are typically displaying when interacting with their 1–18 month-old infants and family dogs, but not when interacting with another adult. The so-called Special Happy expression proved to be the most frequent face type during infant- and dog-directed communication which always includes a Duchenne marker to convey an honest and intense happy emotion of the speaker. These results suggest that the ‘ prosodic faces ’ play an important role in both adult-infant and human–dog interactions and fulfil specific functions: to call and maintain the partner’s attention, to foster emotionally positive interactions, and to strengthen social bonds. Our study highlights the relevance of future comparative studies on facial prosody and its potential contribution to healthy emotional and cognitive development of infants. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - CONF AU - Gergely, Anna AU - Koós-Hutás, Édua AU - Filep, Lőrinc András AU - Topál, József TI - Facial prosodic features of infant- and dog-directed communication T2 - 13th Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science (DUCOG): Cognitive and Functional Perspectives on Emotions PB - Central European Cognitive Science Association (CECOG) C1 - Dubrovnik PY - 2022 SP - 32 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34191319 ID - 34191319 N1 - poster LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Kubinyi, Enikő AU - Gácsi, Márta AU - Topál, József AU - Miklósi, Ádám TI - Dog–wolf differences: caution is needed to avoid overgeneralisation of scanty data JF - TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES J2 - TRENDS COGN SCI VL - 26 PY - 2022 IS - 9 SP - 728 EP - 729 PG - 2 SN - 1364-6613 DO - 10.1016/j.tics.2022.05.003 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33070499 ID - 33070499 N1 - Cited By :1 Export Date: 13 September 2022 CODEN: TCSCF Correspondence Address: Miklósi, Á.; Department of Ethology, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/C, Hungary; email: adam.miklosi@ttk.elte.hu LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Vargáné Kis, Anna AU - Bolló, Henrietta AU - Gergely, Anna AU - Topál, József TI - Intranasal oxytocin studies on dogs might not be double-blind JF - APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE J2 - APPL ANIM BEHAV SCI VL - 253 PY - 2022 SN - 0168-1591 DO - 10.1016/j.applanim.2022.105681 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/32897138 ID - 32897138 N1 - Export Date: 20 October 2023 CODEN: AABSE Correspondence Address: Kis, A.; Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Magyar tudósok krt. 2. 1117, Hungary; email: vargane.kis.anna@ttk.mta.hu LA - English DB - MTMT ER -