TY - JOUR AU - Bognár, Zsófia AU - Szabó, Dóra AU - Turcsán, Borbála AU - Kubinyi, Enikő TI - The behavioural effect of short-term cognitive and physical intervention therapies in old dogs JF - GEROSCIENCE: OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN AGING ASSOCIATION (AGE) J2 - GEROSCIENCE PY - 2024 PG - 21 SN - 2509-2715 DO - 10.1007/s11357-024-01122-2 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34790512 ID - 34790512 N1 - Funding Agency and Grant Number: Eotvos Lorand University; Ministry for Innovation and Technology [UNKP-22-3-II-ELTE-577, UNKP-23-3-II-ELTE-832]; Hungarian Academy of Sciences [PH1404/21]; National Brain Programme 3.0 of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences [NAP2022-I-3/2022]; European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union [680040] Funding text: Open access funding provided by Eotvos Lorand University. This project has received funding from the UNKP-22-3 and UNKP-23-3 New National Excellence Program of the Ministry for Innovation and Technology (UNKP-22-3-II-ELTE-577 and UNKP-23-3-II-ELTE-832); the Hungarian Academy of Sciences via a grant to the MTA-ELTE "Lendulet" Momentum Companion Animal Research Group (PH1404/21), the National Brain Programme 3.0 of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (NAP2022-I-3/2022), and the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement No. 680040). AB - 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. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Camerlink, Irene AU - Pongrácz, Péter TI - In memoriam of incredible animal behaviour researchers JF - APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE J2 - APPL ANIM BEHAV SCI VL - 273 PY - 2024 SN - 0168-1591 DO - 10.1016/j.applanim.2024.106246 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34787589 ID - 34787589 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Pongrácz, Péter AU - Turi, Luca AU - Dobos , Petra AU - Burányi, Virág AU - Schally, Gergely AU - Biró, Zsolt TI - 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 JF - BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION J2 - BIOL CONSERV VL - 293 PY - 2024 SN - 0006-3207 DO - 10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110586 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34784793 ID - 34784793 N1 - ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Department of Ethology Budapest, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/c1117, Hungary Department of Wildlife Biology and Management, Institute for Wildlife Management and Nature Conservation, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences Gödöllő, Páter Károly utca 12100, Hungary Budakeszi Wildlife Park, Hrsz 0210/12, Budakeszi, 2092, Hungary Export Date: 21 April 2024 CODEN: BICOB Correspondence Address: Pongrácz, P.; ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/c, Hungary; email: peter.pongracz@ttk.elte.hu LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Bognár, Zsófia AU - Turcsán, Borbála AU - Faragó, Tamás AU - Szabó, Dóra AU - Iotchev, Ivaylo AU - Kubinyi, Enikő TI - Age-related effects on a hierarchical structure of canine cognition JF - GEROSCIENCE: OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN AGING ASSOCIATION (AGE) J2 - GEROSCIENCE PY - 2024 SN - 2509-2715 DO - 10.1007/s11357-024-01123-1 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34755548 ID - 34755548 N1 - Department of Ethology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary MTA-ELTE Lendület “Momentum” Companion Animal Research Group, Budapest, Hungary ELTE NAP Canine Brain Research Group, Budapest, Hungary Export Date: 28 March 2024 Correspondence Address: Turcsán, B.; Department of Ethology, Hungary; email: borbala.turcsan@gmail.com AB - 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. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Pongrácz, Péter AU - Camerlink, Irene TI - Review papers are important milestones for science – But how to write a good one? JF - APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE J2 - APPL ANIM BEHAV SCI VL - 272 PY - 2024 SN - 0168-1591 DO - 10.1016/j.applanim.2024.106233 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34755360 ID - 34755360 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Liszkai-Peres, Krisztina AU - Budai, Zsófia AU - Adrienn, Kocsis AU - Jurányi, Zsolt AU - Pogány, Ákos AU - Kampis, György AU - Miklósi, Ádám AU - Konok, Veronika TI - Association between mobile touchscreen devices (MTSDs) and the quality of parent-child interaction in preschoolers JF - Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry VL - 3 PY - 2024 SN - 2813-4540 DO - 10.3389/frcha.2024.1330243 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34726766 ID - 34726766 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Boros, Marianna AU - Magyari, Lilla AU - Morvai, Boglárka AU - Raúl, Hernandez-Perez AU - Dror, Shany AU - Andics, Attila TI - Neural evidence for referential understanding of object words in dogs JF - CURRENT BIOLOGY J2 - CURR BIOL VL - 34 PY - 2024 IS - 8 SP - 1750 EP - 1754 PG - 5 SN - 0960-9822 DO - 10.1016/j.cub.2024.02.029 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34726473 ID - 34726473 N1 - Export Date: 24 April 2024 CODEN: CUBLE Correspondence Address: Boros, M.; Neuroethology of Communication Lab, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/C, Hungary; email: marianna.cs.boros@gmail.com Correspondence Address: Magyari, L.; Neuroethology of Communication Lab, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/C, Hungary; email: lilla.magyari@uis.no AB - 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. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Fodor, Erika Gabriella AU - Javan, Okendo AU - Nóra, Szabó AU - Kata, Szabó AU - Czimer, Dávid Gyula AU - Anita, Tarján-Rácz AU - Szeverényi, Ildikó AU - Bi, Wei Low AU - Jia, Huan Liew AU - Sergey, Koren AU - Arang, Rhie AU - Orbán, László AU - Miklósi, Ádám AU - Varga, Máté AU - Shawn, M. Burgess TI - The reference genome of paradise fish (Macropodus opercularis) JF - SCIENTIFIC DATA J2 - SCI DATA PY - 2024 SN - 2052-4463 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34714841 ID - 34714841 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Dzik, Marina Victoria AU - Carballo, Fabricio AU - Cavalli, Camila AU - Iglesias, Mariana AU - Faragó, Tamás AU - Kubinyi, Enikő AU - Bentosela, Mariana TI - What if the reward is not as yummy? Study of the effects of successive negative contrast in domestic dogs in two different tasks JF - JOURNAL OF VETERINARY BEHAVIOR: CLINICAL APPLICATIONS AND RESEARCH J2 - J VET BEHAV VL - 72 PY - 2024 SP - 18 EP - 27 PG - 10 SN - 1558-7878 DO - 10.1016/j.jveb.2023.12.009 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34689546 ID - 34689546 N1 - Grupo de Investigación del Comportamiento en Cánidos (ICOC), Instituto de Investigaciones Médicas (IDIM), Universidad de Buenos Aires, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina Instituto de Investigaciones Médicas A. Lanari, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina Departamento de Biología Bioquímica y Farmacia, Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas y Biomédicas del Sur (INBIOSUR), Universidad Nacional del Sur (UNS) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Bahía Blanca, Argentina Department of Ethology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary MTA-ELTE Lendület “Momentum” Companion Animal Research Group, Institute of Biology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary ELTE NAP Canine Brain Research Group, Institute of Biology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary Export Date: 22 March 2024 Correspondence Address: Bentosela, M.; Grupo de Investigación del Comportamiento en Cánidos (ICOC), Av. Combatientes de Malvinas 3150 (1427), Argentina; email: marianabentosela@gmail.com LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Pongrácz, Péter AU - Camerlink, Irene TI - Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Applied Animal Behaviour Science JF - APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE J2 - APPL ANIM BEHAV SCI VL - 271 PY - 2024 SN - 0168-1591 DO - 10.1016/j.applanim.2024.106183 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34577375 ID - 34577375 LA - English DB - MTMT ER -