Ellen Furlong

Ellen Furlong

Mar 18, 2016

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An Average Study in the IWU Dog Lab

This isn't the study we're hoping to fund here, but it's a study we've been working on in the lab for a while. You can get a sense from watching it about the kinds of things we do in the lab, the kinds of things each student does to allow for data collection, and the kinds of behaviors we're expecting to see in the dogs. This is a video I made for my research methods course, so don't feel like you need to do the assignment at the end :)


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About This Project

Do collies think differently than Labradors? Our preliminary evidence suggests yes – herding dogs (who track large numbers of animals) may reason about numbers more precisely than hunting dogs. However, this preliminary work has several limitations that must be overcome before we can conclude that selectively breeding dogs to serve particular functions has shaped the way they think. In this project we plan to implement the necessary controls to further explore this exciting yet preliminary work.

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