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 - CONF AU - Harmati-Pap, Veronika AU - Balázs, Andrea AU - Lakatos, Krisztina AU - Tóth, Ildikó AU - Vadász, Noémi AU - Kas, Bence TI - Patterns of Maternal Infant Directed Speech related to Infants' Sex, Temperament and Language Skills T2 - BCCCD 2024 Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development C1 - Budapest PY - 2024 SP - 1 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34685549 ID - 34685549 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 - Mondino, A. AU - Ludwig, C. AU - Menchaca, C. AU - Russell, K. AU - Simon, K. E. AU - Griffith, E. AU - Vargáné Kis, Anna AU - Lascelles, B. D. X. AU - Gruen, M. E. AU - Olby, N. J. TI - Development and validation of a sleep questionnaire, SNoRE 3.0, to evaluate sleep in companion dogs JF - SCIENTIFIC REPORTS J2 - SCI REP VL - 13 PY - 2023 IS - 1 SN - 2045-2322 DO - 10.1038/s41598-023-40048-1 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34154328 ID - 34154328 AB - Disturbances in the sleep–wake cycle are a debilitating, yet rather common condition not only in humans, but also in family dogs. While there is an emerging need for easy-to-use tools to document sleep alterations (in order to ultimately treat and/or prevent them), the veterinary tools which yield objective data (e.g. polysomnography, activity monitors) are both labor intensive and expensive. In this study, we developed a modified version of a previously used sleep questionnaire (SNoRE) and determined criterion validity in companion dogs against polysomnography and physical activity monitors (PAMs). Since a negative correlation between sleep time and cognitive performance in senior dogs has been demonstrated, we evaluated the correlation between the SNoRE scores and the Canine Dementia Scale (CADES, which includes a factor concerning sleep). There was a significant correlation between SNoRE 3.0 questionnaire scores and polysomnography data (latency to NREM sleep, ρ = 0.507, p < 0.001) as well as PAMs’ data (activity between 1:00 and 3:00 AM, p < 0.05). There was a moderate positive correlation between the SNoRE 3.0 scores and the CADES scores (ρ = 0.625, p < 0.001). Additionally, the questionnaire structure was validated by a confirmatory factor analysis, and it also showed an adequate test–retest reliability. In conclusion the present paper describes a valid and reliable questionnaire tool, that can be used as a cost-effective way to monitor dog sleep in clinical settings. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Eleőd, Huba AU - Gácsi, Márta AU - Bunford, Nóra AU - Vargáné Kis, Anna TI - Event-related potentials indicate differential neural reactivity to species and valence information in vocal stimuli in sleeping dogs JF - SCIENTIFIC REPORTS J2 - SCI REP VL - 13 PY - 2023 IS - 1 SN - 2045-2322 DO - 10.1038/s41598-023-40851-w UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34130467 ID - 34130467 N1 - Department of Ethology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary Doctoral School of Biology, Institute of Biology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary ELKH-ELTE Comparative Ethology Research Group, Budapest, Hungary Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Clinical and Developmental Neuropsychology Research Group, Budapest, Hungary Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, Budapest, Hungary ELTE-ELKH NAP Comparative Ethology Research group, Budapest, Hungary Export Date: 20 September 2023 Correspondence Address: Eleőd, H.; Department of Ethology, Hungary; email: eleodhuba@gmail.com AB - Dogs live in a complex social environment where they regularly interact with conspecific and heterospecific partners. Awake dogs are able to process a variety of information based on vocalisations emitted by dogs and humans. Whether dogs are also able to process such information while asleep, is unknown. In the current explorative study, we investigated in N = 13 family dogs, neural response to conspecific and human emotional vocalisations. Data were recorded while dogs were asleep, using a fully non-invasive event-related potential (ERP) paradigm. A species (between 250–450 and 600–800 ms after stimulus onset) and a species by valence interaction (between 550 to 650 ms after stimulus onset) effect was observed during drowsiness. A valence (750–850 ms after stimulus onset) and a species x valence interaction (between 200 to 300 ms and 450 to 650 ms after stimulus onset) effect was also observed during non-REM specific at the Cz electrode. Although further research is needed, these results not only suggest that dogs neurally differentiate between differently valenced con- and heterospecific vocalisations, but they also provide the first evidence of complex vocal processing during sleep in dogs. Assessment and detection of ERPs during sleep in dogs appear feasible. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Cuaya, Laura V. AU - Hernández-Pérez, Raúl AU - Andics, Attila AU - Báji, Rita AU - Gácsi, Márta AU - Guilloux, Marion AU - Roche, Alice AU - Callejon, Laurence AU - Miklósi, Ádám AU - Ujfalussy, Dorottya Júlia TI - Representation of rewards differing in their hedonic valence in the caudate nucleus correlates with the performance in a problem-solving task in dogs (Canis familiaris) JF - SCIENTIFIC REPORTS J2 - SCI REP VL - 13 PY - 2023 IS - 1 SN - 2045-2322 DO - 10.1038/s41598-023-40539-1 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34127879 ID - 34127879 N1 - Department of Ethology, Institute of Biology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary MTA-ELTE ‘Lendület’ Neuroethology of Communication Research Group, Hungarian Academy of Sciences – Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary ELTE NAP Canine Brain Research Group, Budapest, Hungary ELKH-ELTE Comparative Ethology Research Group, Budapest, Hungary Symrise Pet Food - Spécialités Pet Food SAS, Elven, France Psychobiology Research Group - NAP, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary MTA-ELTE Lendület “Momentum” Companion Animal Research Group, Budapest, Hungary Department of Ethology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/C, Budapest, 1117, Hungary Export Date: 26 September 2023 Correspondence Address: Ujfalussy, D.J.; Department of Ethology, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/C, Hungary; email: ujfalussydori@gmail.com AB - We have investigated dogs’ ( Canis familiaris ) abilities in associating different sounds with appetitive stimuli of different incentive values. The association’s establishment was first tested on family dogs (n = 20) in a problem-solving behavioural paradigm (experiment 1), then in a problem-solving behavioural paradigm as well as an fMRI study on specially trained family dogs (n = 20) (experiment 2). The aim was to show behavioural and parallel neural effects of the association formed between the two sounds and two different associated appetitive stimuli. The latency of solving the problem was considered an indicator of the motivational state. In our first experiment, where only behaviour was studied, we found that dogs were quicker in solving a problem upon hearing the sound associated with food higher in reward value, suggesting that they have successfully associated the sounds with the corresponding food value. In our second experiment, this behaviour difference was not significant. In the fMRI study, the cerebral response to the two sounds was compared both before and after the associative training. Two bilateral regions of interest were explored: the caudate nucleus and the amygdala. After the associative training, the response in the caudate nucleus was higher to the sound related to a higher reward value food than to the sound related to a lower reward value food, which difference was not present before the associative training. We found an increase in the amygdala response to both sounds after the training. In a whole-brain representational similarity analysis, we found that cerebral patterns in the caudate nucleus to the two sounds were different only after the training. Moreover, we found a positive correlation between the dissimilarity index in the caudate nucleus for activation responses to the two sounds and the difference in latencies (i.e. high reward value associated sound condition latency—low reward value associated sound condition latency) to solve the behavioural task: the bigger the difference between the conditions in latency to solve the task, the greater the difference in the neural representation of the two sounds was. In summary, family dogs’ brain activation patterns reflected their expectations based on what they learned about the relationship between two sounds and their associated appetitive stimuli. 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 - Mondino, Alejandra AU - Catanzariti, Magaly AU - Mateos, Diego Martin AU - Khan, Michael AU - Ludwig, Claire AU - Vargáné Kis, Anna AU - Gruen, Margaret E. AU - Olby, Natasha J. TI - Sleep and cognition in aging dogs. A polysomnographic study JF - FRONTIERS IN VETERINARY SCIENCE J2 - FRONT VET SCI VL - 10 PY - 2023 SN - 2297-1769 DO - 10.3389/fvets.2023.1151266 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33788132 ID - 33788132 N1 - Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States Instituto de Matemática Aplicada del Litoral, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técninas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina Physics Department, Universidad Autónoma de Entre Ríos (UADER), Oro Verde, Entre Ríos, Argentina Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Budapest, Hungary Export Date: 19 June 2023 Correspondence Address: Olby, N.J.; Department of Clinical Sciences, United States; email: njolby@ncsu.edu LA - English DB - MTMT ER -