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dc.contributor.authorWatowich, Marina M.
dc.contributor.authorMacLean, Evan L.
dc.contributor.authorHare, Brian
dc.contributor.authorCall, Josep
dc.contributor.authorKaminski, Juliane
dc.contributor.authorMiklósi, Ádám
dc.contributor.authorSnyder-Mackler, Noah
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-29T23:40:39Z
dc.date.available2021-04-29T23:40:39Z
dc.date.issued2020-07
dc.identifier268099890
dc.identifier71f1a7b2-365c-4d49-b02d-46edb6fd3cbf
dc.identifier85084209332
dc.identifier000529732100001
dc.identifier.citationWatowich , M M , MacLean , E L , Hare , B , Call , J , Kaminski , J , Miklósi , Á & Snyder-Mackler , N 2020 , ' Age influences domestic dog cognitive performance independent of average breed lifespan ' , Animal Cognition , vol. 23 , pp. 795-805 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-020-01385-0en
dc.identifier.issn1435-9456
dc.identifier.otherRIS: urn:23B1517E3C53CD3E434561663035F4FF
dc.identifier.otherRIS: Watowich2020
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-8597-8336/work/74510294
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/23106
dc.descriptionThis work was supported by the National Institute of Health Grants R00AG051764, U19AG057377, R01AG060931, R01HD097732. AM was supported by the National Brain Research Program (2017-1.2.1-NKP-2017-00002) and from the ELTE Institutional Excellence Program supported by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NKFIH-1157-8/2019-DT).en
dc.description.abstractAcross mammals, increased body size is positively associated with lifespan. However, within species, this relationship is inverted. This is well illustrated in dogs (Canis familiaris), where larger dogs exhibit accelerated life trajectories: growing faster and dying younger than smaller dogs. Similarly, some age-associated traits (e.g., growth rate and physiological pace of aging) exhibit accelerated trajectories in larger breeds. Yet, it is unknown whether cognitive performance also demonstrates an accelerated life course trajectory in larger dogs. Here, we measured cognitive development and aging in a cross-sectional study of over 4000 dogs from 66 breeds using nine memory and decision-making tasks performed by citizen scientists as part of the Dognition project. Specifically, we tested whether cognitive traits follow a compressed (accelerated) trajectory in larger dogs, or the same trajectory for all breeds, which would result in limited cognitive decline in larger breeds. We found that all breeds, regardless of size or lifespan, tended to follow the same quadratic trajectory of cognitive aging—with a period of cognitive development in early life and decline in later life. Taken together, our results suggest that cognitive performance follows similar age-related trajectories across dog breeds, despite remarkable variation in developmental rates and lifespan.
dc.format.extent546146
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofAnimal Cognitionen
dc.subjectCognitive evolutionen
dc.subjectCognitive agingen
dc.subjectBreed differencesen
dc.subjectCitizen scienceen
dc.subjectExecutive functionen
dc.subjectBF Psychologyen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subject.lccBFen
dc.titleAge influences domestic dog cognitive performance independent of average breed lifespanen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscienceen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolutionen
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10071-020-01385-0
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2021-04-30


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