The mouth matters most: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of how dogs perceive inanimate objects
| Autor: | Kate Athanassiades, Veronica Chiu, Raveena Chhibber, Mark Spivak, Gregory S. Berns, Ashley Prichard |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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0301 basic medicine
Male genetic structures media_common.quotation_subject Biology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Dogs Perception Cortex (anatomy) medicine Animals media_common Temporal cortex Brain Mapping Mouth medicine.diagnostic_test General Neuroscience Representation (systemics) Cognition Somatosensory Cortex Object (philosophy) Magnetic Resonance Imaging 030104 developmental biology medicine.anatomical_structure Touch Perception Visual Perception Female Mouthing Functional magnetic resonance imaging 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Photic Stimulation Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of comparative neurologyREFERENCES. 529(11) |
| ISSN: | 1096-9861 |
| Popis: | The perception and representation of objects in the world are foundational to all animals. The relative importance of objects' physical properties versus how the objects are interacted with continues to be debated. Neural evidence in humans and nonhuman primates suggests animate-inanimate and face-body dimensions of objects are represented in the temporal cortex. However, because primates have opposable thumbs and interact with objects in similar ways, the question remains as to whether this similarity represents the evolution of a common cognitive process or whether it reflects a similarity of physical interaction. Here, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in dogs to test whether the type of interaction affects object processing in an animal that interacts primarily with its mouth. In Study 1, we identified object-processing regions of cortex by having dogs passively view movies of faces and objects. In Study 2, dogs were trained to interact with two new objects with either the mouth or the paw. Then, we measured responsivity in the object regions to the presentation of these objects. Mouth-objects elicited significantly greater activity in object regions than paw-objects. Mouth-objects were also associated with activity in somatosensory cortex, suggesting dogs were anticipating mouthing interactions. These findings suggest that object perception in dogs is affected by how dogs expect to interact with familiar objects. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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