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Christoph Völter
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Comparative & Developmental Psychologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology 🦍 and the Messerli Research Institute 🐕
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Using mobile #eyetracking to study #dogs’ understanding of human referential communication. New study w/ Karoline Gerwisch, Paula Berg, Zsófia Virányi and Ludwig Huber
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February 12, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Canine perspective taking: Anticipating the behavior of an unseen human. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
New paper w/ L.Huber, P.van der Wolf, M.Menkveld & S.Riemer providing evidence that dogs prefer to steal from a plate unseen by a human when the human's presence has to be inferred from sound cues.
Graphical abstract: In a stealing task, dogs had to choose between two plates with food; During prior exploration, only one of the plates was in line of sight of a human; In the test, the human was absent but indirect auditory cues signaled her presence; Despite being alone, dogs stole forbidden food from where they could not be seen
January 31, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Join us! We are seeking applicants for a fully funded 3-y PhD project on dogs’ and infants' causal perception using #eyetracking and #pupillometry, based at Vetmeduni Vienna and in collaboration with @jfkominsky.bsky.social at CEU.
Full info here: share.eva.mpg.de/index.php/s/...
Dog on a chin rest in an eye-tracking study.
September 9, 2024 at 3:48 PM
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A new implementation of the 'goggles' paradigm: "Dogs do not use their own experience with novel barriers to infer others’ visual access."
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led by Lucrezia Lonardo and w/ Martina Putnik, Veronika Szewczak, and Ludwig Huber.
Setup of the experience-projection study (Exp1) shown from the dog's perspective. A dog is looking at a bucket that is gaze-cued by the experimenter. The experimenter looks at the bucket through a transparent tunnel but whether the tunnel is transparent or not is not visible to the dog. Setup of the experience-projection study (Exp1) from the experimenter's perspective. The experimenter looks at a bucket through a transparent tunnel. The dog is looking at the same bucket.
June 12, 2024 at 10:21 AM
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We are seeking applicants for a fully funded 3-y doctoral project on #dogs’ socio-cognitive abilities, particularly focusing on their sensitivity to human intentions and communicative signals, based at Vetmeduni Vienna.
Full info here: vetcloud.vetmeduni.ac.at/nextcloud/s/...
Screenshot of a behavioral experiment with dogs in which different areas of interest have been segmented and annotated using object detection algorithms. Dog on a chin-rest in an eyetracking experiment.
September 18, 2023 at 3:51 PM