Mentor: Carrie Hall, Ph.D.

Self-awareness can be defined as the cognitive ability to discriminate the self from other conspecifics (Horowitz, 2017). Apart from humans and great apes, few animals have been clearly shown to demonstrate relevant aspects of self-awareness - when it comes to dogs, the debate is ongoing. This poster summarizes the contributions of five subfields to the topic of canine self-awareness, and exposes the criticism to current research to clarify the current state of dog self-awareness research.

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