@article{MTMT:34790512, title = {The behavioural effect of short-term cognitive and physical intervention therapies in old dogs}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34790512}, author = {Bognár, Zsófia and Szabó, Dóra and Turcsán, Borbála and Kubinyi, Enikő}, doi = {10.1007/s11357-024-01122-2}, journal-iso = {GEROSCIENCE}, journal = {GEROSCIENCE: OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN AGING ASSOCIATION (AGE)}, unique-id = {34790512}, issn = {2509-2715}, abstract = {Efforts to counteract age-related decline have resulted in the emergence of various interventions. However, everyday benefits are rarely reported in elderly people. Dogs provide an excellent model for studying aging and interventions due to their similarities to humans. Our aim was to investigate whether a combined physical and cognitive intervention (most effective in humans) could enhance the performance of pet dogs and lead to far transfer effects (improvement in not just the trained specific task). We examined the impact of three-month-long intervention therapies (cognitive, physical, combined) on the cognitive performance and behaviour of old, healthy dogs (N = 72; aged 7.68-14.54 years) using a 12-subtest behavioural test battery. We did not find the combined intervention group outperforming either the cognitive-only or physical-only therapy groups. Physical interventions, either alone or in combination, improved dogs' behavioural flexibility and social behaviour. Cognitive interventions, either alone or in combination, increased neophilia. Furthermore, all intervention therapies made dogs more engaged with their environment. Moreover, less old, around eight years old dogs, exhibited improved social behaviour, problem solving ability, and increased neophilia by their second test occasion. Additionally, dogs' performance was influenced by their health, training, daily play with the owner, and activity/excitability traits. In sum, both cognitive and physical intervention therapies can have an impact on the behaviour of old, healthy pet dogs. However, these therapies may be more effective when longer or applied at a younger age, as the healthy older dogs were less likely to show improvement.}, keywords = {DISCRIMINATION; AGE; antioxidants; PERFORMANCE; ENRICHMENT; CANIS-FAMILIARIS; Regression; INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES; AGE-RELATED DECLINE; cognitive intervention; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTATION; Dog aging; Physical intervention}, year = {2024}, eissn = {2509-2723}, orcid-numbers = {Bognár, Zsófia/0000-0002-5308-3394; Szabó, Dóra/0000-0001-7902-7713; Turcsán, Borbála/0000-0002-0197-5243; Kubinyi, Enikő/0000-0002-4468-9845} } @article{MTMT:34787589, title = {In memoriam of incredible animal behaviour researchers}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34787589}, author = {Camerlink, Irene and Pongrácz, Péter}, doi = {10.1016/j.applanim.2024.106246}, journal-iso = {APPL ANIM BEHAV SCI}, journal = {APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE}, volume = {273}, unique-id = {34787589}, issn = {0168-1591}, year = {2024}, eissn = {1872-9045}, orcid-numbers = {Pongrácz, Péter/0000-0001-5126-299X} } @article{MTMT:34784793, title = {Do as I say, not as I do – The paradoxical relationship between actual cat keeping practices and knowledge about wildcat conservation among Hungarian cat owners}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34784793}, author = {Pongrácz, Péter and Turi, Luca and Dobos , Petra and Burányi, Virág and Schally, Gergely and Biró, Zsolt}, doi = {10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110586}, journal-iso = {BIOL CONSERV}, journal = {BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION}, volume = {293}, unique-id = {34784793}, issn = {0006-3207}, year = {2024}, eissn = {1873-2917}, orcid-numbers = {Pongrácz, Péter/0000-0001-5126-299X; Schally, Gergely/0000-0002-3289-1843} } @article{MTMT:34755548, title = {Age-related effects on a hierarchical structure of canine cognition}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34755548}, author = {Bognár, Zsófia and Turcsán, Borbála and Faragó, Tamás and Szabó, Dóra and Iotchev, Ivaylo and Kubinyi, Enikő}, doi = {10.1007/s11357-024-01123-1}, journal-iso = {GEROSCIENCE}, journal = {GEROSCIENCE: OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN AGING ASSOCIATION (AGE)}, unique-id = {34755548}, issn = {2509-2715}, abstract = {The current study investigates whether there are statistically independent age-related influences on the canine cognitive structure and how individual factors moderate cognitive aging on both cross-sectional and longitudinal samples. A battery of seven tasks was administered to 129 pet dogs, on which exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were employed to unveil the correlational structure underlying individual differences in cognitive performance. The best-fitting model featured a hierarchical structure with two first-order cognitive domains (individual problem solving, learning) and a second-order common factor. These higher order factors exhibited consistency over a period of at least 2.5 years. External validation linked the common factor positively to discrimination and reversal learning performance, exploration, neophilia, activity/excitability, and training level while negatively to cognitive dysfunction symptoms, suggesting that it is a good candidate for a general cognitive factor ( canine g ). Structural equation models identified three distinct age-related influences, operating on associative learning, on memory, and on canine g . Health status moderated the negative age- canine g relationship, with a stronger association observed in dogs with poorer health status, and no relationship for dogs in good health. On a longitudinal sample ( N = 99), we showed that the direction and magnitude of change in canine g over up to 3 years is affected by various interactions between the dogs’ age, communication score, baseline performance, and time elapsed since the baseline measurement. These findings underscore the presence of a general cognitive factor in dogs and reveal intriguing parallels between human and canine aging, affirming the translational value of dogs in cognition and aging research.}, year = {2024}, eissn = {2509-2723}, orcid-numbers = {Bognár, Zsófia/0000-0002-5308-3394; Turcsán, Borbála/0000-0002-0197-5243; Faragó, Tamás/0000-0001-5987-2629; Szabó, Dóra/0000-0001-7902-7713; Kubinyi, Enikő/0000-0002-4468-9845} } @article{MTMT:34755360, title = {Review papers are important milestones for science – But how to write a good one?}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34755360}, author = {Pongrácz, Péter and Camerlink, Irene}, doi = {10.1016/j.applanim.2024.106233}, journal-iso = {APPL ANIM BEHAV SCI}, journal = {APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE}, volume = {272}, unique-id = {34755360}, issn = {0168-1591}, year = {2024}, eissn = {1872-9045}, orcid-numbers = {Pongrácz, Péter/0000-0001-5126-299X} } @article{MTMT:34726766, title = {Association between mobile touchscreen devices (MTSDs) and the quality of parent-child interaction in preschoolers}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34726766}, author = {Liszkai-Peres, Krisztina and Budai, Zsófia and Adrienn, Kocsis and Jurányi, Zsolt and Pogány, Ákos and Kampis, György and Miklósi, Ádám and Konok, Veronika}, doi = {10.3389/frcha.2024.1330243}, journal = {Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry}, volume = {3}, unique-id = {34726766}, year = {2024}, eissn = {2813-4540}, orcid-numbers = {Liszkai-Peres, Krisztina/0000-0001-9051-9591; Pogány, Ákos/0000-0001-9498-0158; Kampis, György/0000-0001-7373-9402; Miklósi, Ádám/0000-0003-4831-8985; Konok, Veronika/0000-0001-6660-3603} } @article{MTMT:34726473, title = {Neural evidence for referential understanding of object words in dogs}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34726473}, author = {Boros, Marianna and Magyari, Lilla and Morvai, Boglárka and Raúl, Hernandez-Perez and Dror, Shany and Andics, Attila}, doi = {10.1016/j.cub.2024.02.029}, journal-iso = {CURR BIOL}, journal = {CURRENT BIOLOGY}, volume = {34}, unique-id = {34726473}, issn = {0960-9822}, abstract = {Using words to refer to objects in the environment is a core feature of the human language faculty. Referential understanding assumes the formation of mental representations of these words1,2. Such understanding of object words has not yet been demonstrated as a general capacity in any non-human species,3 despite multiple behaviour-based case reports.4–10 In human event-related potential (ERP) studies, object word knowledge is typically tested using the semantic violation paradigm, where words are presented either with their referent (match) or another object (mismatch).11,12 Such mismatch elicits an N400 effect, a well-established neural correlate of semantic processing.12,13 Reports of preverbal infant N400 evoked by semantic violations14 asserts the use of this paradigm to probe mental representations of object words in nonverbal populations. Here, measuring dogs’ (Canis familiaris) ERPs to objects primed with matching or mismatching object words, we found a mismatch effect at a frontal electrode, with a latency (206-606 ms) comparable to the human N400. A greater difference for words that dogs knew better, according to owner reports, further supported a semantic interpretation of this effect. Semantic expectations emerged irrespective of vocabulary size, demonstrating the prevalence of referential understanding in dogs. These results provide the first neural evidence for object word knowledge in a non-human animal.}, keywords = {N400; Comparative cognition; speech-processing; canine (dog)}, year = {2024}, eissn = {1879-0445}, pages = {1750-1754}, orcid-numbers = {Boros, Marianna/0000-0002-5811-1411; Morvai, Boglárka/0000-0001-6360-9284; Andics, Attila/0000-0002-5913-6100} } @article{MTMT:34714841, title = {The reference genome of paradise fish (Macropodus opercularis)}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34714841}, author = {Fodor, Erika Gabriella and Javan, Okendo and Nóra, Szabó and Kata, Szabó and Czimer, Dávid Gyula and Anita, Tarján-Rácz and Szeverényi, Ildikó and Bi, Wei Low and Jia, Huan Liew and Sergey, Koren and Arang, Rhie and Orbán, László and Miklósi, Ádám and Varga, Máté and Shawn, M. Burgess}, journal-iso = {SCI DATA}, journal = {SCIENTIFIC DATA}, unique-id = {34714841}, year = {2024}, eissn = {2052-4463}, orcid-numbers = {Orbán, László/0000-0001-5435-5948; Miklósi, Ádám/0000-0003-4831-8985; Varga, Máté/0000-0003-4289-1705} } @article{MTMT:34689546, title = {What if the reward is not as yummy? Study of the effects of successive negative contrast in domestic dogs in two different tasks}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34689546}, author = {Dzik, Marina Victoria and Carballo, Fabricio and Cavalli, Camila and Iglesias, Mariana and Faragó, Tamás and Kubinyi, Enikő and Bentosela, Mariana}, doi = {10.1016/j.jveb.2023.12.009}, journal-iso = {J VET BEHAV}, journal = {JOURNAL OF VETERINARY BEHAVIOR: CLINICAL APPLICATIONS AND RESEARCH}, volume = {72}, unique-id = {34689546}, issn = {1558-7878}, year = {2024}, eissn = {1878-7517}, pages = {18-27}, orcid-numbers = {Faragó, Tamás/0000-0001-5987-2629; Kubinyi, Enikő/0000-0002-4468-9845} } @article{MTMT:34577375, title = {Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Applied Animal Behaviour Science}, url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34577375}, author = {Pongrácz, Péter and Camerlink, Irene}, doi = {10.1016/j.applanim.2024.106183}, journal-iso = {APPL ANIM BEHAV SCI}, journal = {APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE}, volume = {271}, unique-id = {34577375}, issn = {0168-1591}, year = {2024}, eissn = {1872-9045}, orcid-numbers = {Pongrácz, Péter/0000-0001-5126-299X} }