Publications by authors named "Camila Cavalli"
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- Spatial judgement bias tests (JBTs) assess an animal's expectation of reward based on their approach to ambiguous locations between rewarded and unrewarded bowls, reflecting their level of 'optimism' and potential welfare.
- A study involving 16 companion dogs tested whether a learning treatment (different discrimination trials) would impact their 'optimism' in a subsequent JBT.
- The results indicated that the additional discrimination trials did not change the dogs' approach latencies to ambiguous locations, suggesting that their 'optimism' remained unaffected by the learning treatment.
When confronted with a difficult or impossible problem, dogs tend to look back at humans and try to catch their attention, instead of trying to solve it themselves. This behavior has been interpreted as a help request, but it is debated whether dogs take into account prior experiences with people when selecting whom to turn to. In the present study, dogs were trained to discriminate between a generous experimenter who gave them food and a selfish one that took it away.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA wide variety of evidence has demonstrated that oxytocin is involved in socio-cognitive skills in domestic dogs (). The purpose was to evaluate the effect of oxytocin administration on socio-cognitive abilities in two populations of dogs with different levels of daily human contact: shelter and pet dogs. Additionally, the effect of different doses of oxytocin (i.
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