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  • Cognitive Ethology
  • Animal Behavior
  • Comparative Psychology

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  • Dogs exhibit remarkable abilities in human interaction and communication.
  • Understanding how dogs perceive human perspectives is crucial in canine cognition research.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review and discuss studies investigating dogs' perspective-taking abilities.
  • To determine if dogs can infer others' mental states, such as knowledge and beliefs.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of existing research on canine perspective-taking.
  • Examination of tasks involving gaze-following, information concealment, and Guesser/Knower differentiation.
  • Review of studies on dogs' responses to human informants with true or false beliefs.

Main Results:

  • Dogs are sensitive to human gaze and attention.
  • Evidence suggests dogs can differentiate between informed and uninformed individuals.
  • Dogs show differential responses to informants holding false beliefs, indicating an understanding of reality-incongruent mental states.

Conclusions:

  • Pet dogs may possess sensitivity to what others see, know, intend, and believe.
  • Perspective-taking abilities in dogs suggest convergent evolution with primates and corvids.
  • Canine cognition research increasingly points to sophisticated social-cognitive skills in dogs.