K9 Cognition & Understanding

 

2011	Overall	That Dog Is Smarter Than You Know: Advances in Understanding Canine Learning, Memory, and Cognition
2011	Hauser	What experimental experience affects dogs' comprehension of human communicative actions?
2006	Brauer	Making Inferences About the Location of Hidden Food:  Social Dog, Causal Ape
2006	Dumas	Strategy planning in dogs (Canis familiaris) in a progressive elimination task
2009	Fiset	Evidence for averaging of distance from landmarks in the domestic dog
2002	Hare	The Domestication of Social Cognition in Dogs
2009	Heberlein	Dogs, Canis familiaris, find hidden food by observing and interacting with a conspecific
2010	Helton	Physical size matters in the domestic dog’s (Canis lupus familiaris) ability to use human pointing cues
2007	Kaminski	Prospective object search in dogs: mixed evidence for knowledge of What and Where
2004	Kaminski	Word Learning in a Domestic Dog:  Evidence for "Fast Mapping"
2000	Kowalska	COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS OF THE TEMPORAL LOBE IN THE DOG: A Review
2009	Miller	What do dogs know about hidden objects?
2010	Pattison	The case of the disappearing bone:  Dogs’  understanding of the physical properties of objects
2009	Pescini	Agility and search and rescue training differently affects pet dogs’ behaviour in socio-cognitive tasks
2009	Reid	Adapting to the human world: Dogs' responsiveness to our social cues
2009	Pescini	Does training make you smarter? The effects of training on dogs’ performance (Canis familiaris) in a problem solving task
2009	Riedel	Adapting to the human world: Dogs' responsiveness to our social cues
2003	Szetei	When dogs seem to lose their nose: an investigation on the use of visual and olfactory cues in communicative context between dog and owner
2004	Viranyi	Dogs respond appropriately to cues of humans’ attentional focus

K9 Behavior

Why they do the things they do.

K9 Cognition

Exactly how smart are they?

K9 Learning Theory

Teaching canines is much different than teaching people.

K9 Handling Skills

How what we do affects what they do.

General Scent Detection

Canine physiology and why/how we smell different to them.

Scent Theory & Movement

Scent movement, air flows and visualizations for us to understand how it works.

Human Remains Detection K9

Human decomposition and other related studies.

Explosives/Arson/Narcotics Detection K9s

Articles specifically for these disciplines.

Tracking/Trailing and Water HRD

More discpline specific articles

Temperament Testing/Personality

Types of testing and how dogs do have personality traits.

Nutrition, Health and Welfare

Articles that are of insterest for kenneled dogs as well as working dog nutrition and health.

Legal Issues and Certificaitons

Various items of interest out of the legal realm.