Estimating the heritability of cognitive traits across dog breeds reveals highly heritable inhibitory control and communication factors

Age influences domestic dog cognitive performance independent of average breed lifespan

(2020) Marina M. Watowich et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Absolute brain size predicts dog breed differences in executive function

(2019) Daniel J. Horschler et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Natural Selection and Spatial Cognition in Wild Food-Caching Mountain Chickadees

(2019) Benjamin R. Sonnenberg et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The heritability of self-control: A meta-analysis

(2019) Y.E. Willems et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Leveraging brain–body scaling relationships for comparative studies

(2019) Daniel J. Horschler et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Highly heritable and functionally relevant breed differences in dog behaviour

(2019) Evan L. MacLean et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Group size and social rank predict inhibitory control in spotted hyaenas

(2019) Lily Johnson-Ulrich et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

A case for methodological overhaul and increased study of executive function in the domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris)

(2018) Mariana R. Olsen   ANIMAL COGNITION

Dogs’ (Canis familiaris) attention to human perception: Influence of breed groups and life experiences.

(2017) Marianne T. E. Heberlein et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Dogs Have the Most Neurons, Though Not the Largest Brain: Trade-Off between Body Mass and Number of Neurons in the Cerebral Cortex of Large Carnivoran Species

(2017) Débora Jardim-Messeder et al.   Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Genomic Analyses Reveal the Influence of Geographic Origin, Migration, and Hybridization on Modern Dog Breed Development

(2017) Heidi G. Parker et al.   Cell Reports

The effects of domestication and ontogeny on cognition in dogs and wolves

(2017) Michelle Lampe et al.   Scientific Reports

The effect of training and breed group on problem-solving behaviours in dogs

(2016) Sarah Marshall-Pescini et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Dog Breed Differences in Visual Communication with Humans

(2016) Akitsugu Konno et al.   PLoS One

Unraveling the evolution of uniquely human cognition

(2016) Evan L. MacLean   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Brain size predicts problem-solving ability in mammalian carnivores

(2016) Sarah Benson-Amram et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Complex disease and phenotype mapping in the domestic dog

(2016) Jessica J. Hayward et al.   Nature Communications

Heritability and the evolution of cognitive traits: Table 1

(2015) R. Croston et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Human-directed social behaviour in dogs shows significant heritability

(2015) M. E. Persson et al.   GENES BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR

Meta-analysis of the heritability of human traits based on fifty years of twin studies

(2015) Tinca J C Polderman et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Second-generation PLINK: rising to the challenge of larger and richer datasets

(2015) Christopher C Chang et al.   GigaScience

The Effect of Domestication on Inhibitory Control: Wolves and Dogs Compared

(2015) Sarah Marshall-Pescini et al.   PLoS One

Citizen Science as a New Tool in Dog Cognition Research

(2015) Laughlin Stewart et al.   PLoS One

Exploring breed differences in dogs (Canis familiaris): does exaggeration or inhibition of predatory response predict performance on human-guided tasks?

(2014) Monique A.R. Udell et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The ecology of spatial memory in four lemur species

(2014) Alexandra G. Rosati et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Behavioral differences among breeds of domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris): Current status of the science

(2014) Lindsay R. Mehrkam et al.   APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR SCIENCE

Chimpanzee Intelligence Is Heritable

(2014) William D. Hopkins et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The evolution of self-control

(2014) E. L. MacLean et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Context specificity of inhibitory control in dogs

(2013) Emily E. Bray et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Artificial Selection on Relative Brain Size in the Guppy Reveals Costs and Benefits of Evolving a Larger Brain

(2013) Alexander Kotrschal et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Dog Behavior Co-Varies with Height, Bodyweight and Skull Shape

(2013) Paul D. McGreevy et al.   PLoS One

Cognitive Ability Influences Reproductive Life History Variation in the Wild

(2012) Ella F. Cole et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Genome-wide efficient mixed-model analysis for association studies

(2012) Xiang Zhou et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Individual variation in cognitive performance: developmental and evolutionary perspectives

(2012) A. Thornton et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Song repertoire size in male song sparrows correlates with detour reaching, but not with other cognitive measures

(2011) Neeltje J. Boogert et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

A Comparison of Problem-Solving and Spatial Orientation in the Wolf (Canis lupus) and Dog (Canis familiaris)

(2011) Laurie Hiestand   BEHAVIOR GENETICS

The organization of the human cerebral cortex estimated by intrinsic functional connectivity

(2011) B. T. Thomas Yeo et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Genome-wide association studies establish that human intelligence is highly heritable and polygenic

(2011) G Davies et al.   MOLECULAR PSYCHIATRY

Methodological Challenges in the Study of Primate Cognition

(2011) M. Tomasello et al.   SCIENCE

Identification of Genomic Regions Associated with Phenotypic Variation between Dog Breeds using Selection Mapping

(2011) Amaury Vaysse et al.   PLoS Genetics

Breed differences in dogs’ (Canis familiaris) gaze to the human face

(2010) Adriana Jakovcevic et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Genome-wide SNP and haplotype analyses reveal a rich history underlying dog domestication

(2010) Bridgett M. vonHoldt et al.   NATURE

The neuroscience of human intelligence differences

(2010) Ian J. Deary et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Human face recognition ability is specific and highly heritable

(2010) J. B. Wilmer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Male satin bowerbird problem-solving ability predicts mating success

(2009) Jason Keagy et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The domestication hypothesis for dogs' skills with human communication: a response to Udell et al. (2008) and Wynne et al. (2008)

(2009) Brian Hare et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Breed differences in dogs sensitivity to human points: A meta-analysis

(2009) Nicole R. Dorey et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

What did domestication do to dogs? A new account of dogs' sensitivity to human actions

(2009) Monique A. R. Udell et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Genetic foundations of human intelligence

(2009) Ian J. Deary et al.   HUMAN GENETICS

An ecologist’s guide to the animal model

(2009) Alastair J. Wilson et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

General Intelligence in Another Primate: Individual Differences across Cognitive Task Performance in a New World Monkey (Saguinus oedipus)

(2009) Konika Banerjee et al.   PLoS One

Comprehension of human pointing gestures in young human-reared wolves (Canis lupus) and dogs (Canis familiaris)

(2008) Zsófia Virányi et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Efficient Control of Population Structure in Model Organism Association Mapping

(2008) H. M. Kang et al.   GENETICS

Assessing the validity of ape-human comparisons: A reply to Boesch (2007).

(2008) Michael Tomasello et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Heritability in the genomics era — concepts and misconceptions

(2008) Peter M. Visscher et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

The early ontogeny of human–dog communication

(2007) Julia Riedel et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR