Domestic dogs as a comparative model for social neuroscience: Advances and challenges.

ABSTRACT: Dogs and humans have lived together for thousands of years and share many analogous socio-cognitive skills. Dog neuroimaging now provides insight into the neural bases of these shared social abilities. Here, we summarize key findings from dog fMRI identifying neocortical brain areas implicated in visual social cognition, such as face, body, and emotion perception, as well as action observation in dogs. These findings provide converging evidence that the temporal cortex plays a significant role in visual social cognition in dogs. We further briefly review investigations into the neural base of the dog-human relationship, mainly involving limbic brain regions. We then discuss current challenges in the field, such as statistical power and lack of common template spaces, and how to overcome th

SUBMITTER: Boch M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7616343 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature