Yale's Canine Cognition Center Studying The Minds Of Man's Best Friend

Yale's Canine Cognition Center Studying The Minds Of
Man's Best Friend

By David Highfield
CBS Pittsburgh
February 11, 2015

Pittsburgh (KDKA) - Have you ever wondered what your dog
is thinking?

Researchers at Yale University are determined to find
out. They've enrolled hundreds of dogs into an unusual
testing program.

It's being done at the Canine Cognition Center, and
Laurie Santos is the director. She says dogs are
fascinating, and owners want to know what's going on in
their minds.

In one of their tests, they put on a puppet show for the
dogs. A rat puppet helps a hedgehog puppet up a hill, but
then the rat knocks the hedgehog down. How will the dog
watching react?

"Similar studies have been done with human infants, and
what we find is infants don't like the guy who was mean,"
said Santos. "So we're doing the same thing with dogs to
try and see if dogs morally evaluate the way humans do."

When the puppet show is over, sure enough, the dog in the
report seems a little leery of the mean rat, letting out
a loud bark at it.

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