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  Title Individual Differences in Dog Cognition: Psychological Underpinnings and Practical Applications
  Speaker Evan MacLean, PhD
  Date(s) May 4, 2016 (ongoing webinar)
  Location Webinar; Time: 8:00-9:30 PM EDT (Midnight UTC/GMT)
  Fee $25.00; $18.00 for IAABC, CCPDT, PPG, KPA, IACP, APDT or other professional members
  CEUs

2 CPDT-KA or CBCC-KA CEUs (CCPDT)
2 IAABC
2 NADOI
2 PPG/PPAB

  Host Organization E-Training for Dogs, Inc.
  Website http://e-trainingfordogs.com/2016/01/individual-differences-in-dog-cognition/
  Contact Person Cheryl Aguiar, PhD
  Contact Email cheryl@e-trainingfordogs.com
  Contact Phone 970-231-9965

  Description of Seminar/Conference
  
 

Individual Differences in Dog Cognition: Psychological Underpinnings and Practical Applications is a 90 minute webinar, live online on May 4, 2016 and then recorded for OnDemand purchase and viewing. In this lecture, Evan MacLean will describe a line of research that aims to uncover the patterns of individual differences in dog cognition, and will describe how to systematically understand these patterns in terms of variance in multiple independent cognitive constructs. He will first compare the patterns of individual differences in dogs, nonhuman apes, and human children, and discuss the implications of these data for understanding dog cognitive evolution. Evan will then turn to how the study of individual differences in dog cognition can be applied to real world problems to identify dogs well matched to various working roles (e.g. assistance dogs, explosive detection dogs).
Research in the last two decades has yielded remarkable insights into the minds of dogs.  Most notably, dogs have been shown to possess a variety of human-like social skills not commonly reported in other nonhuman animals. In contrast, dogs’ abilities for reasoning about the physical world appear to be comparatively unremarkable.  Despite these species-level characterizations, individual dogs vary tremendously in their behavior and cognition.  Most research to date has focused on describing general features of dog cognition, and individual differences have largely been treated as ‘error variance’. 
A question and answer session will follow this webinar that will be moderated by Monique Udell, PhD.

 

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