Voice and speech perception across mammals: a comparative study of humans, dogs and pigs

Project Information

VOIMA

Grant agreement ID: 950159

DOI 10.3030/950159

EC signature date 8 December 2020

Start date 1 July 2021

End date 30 June 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 900 000,00

EU contribution € 1 900 000,00

Coordinated by

EOTVOS LORAND TUDOMANYEGYETEM
Hungary

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (19)

Dog brains are sensitive to infant- and dog-directed prosody

Author(s): Anna Gergely, Anna Gábor, Márta Gácsi, Anna Kis, Kálmán Czeibert, József Topál, Attila Andics
Published in: Communications Biology, 2023, ISSN 2399-3642
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-023-05217-y

Social relationship-dependent neural response to speech in dogs.

Author(s): Anna Gábor; Attila Andics; Ádám Miklósi; Kálmán Czeibert; Cecília Carreiro; Márta Gácsi
Published in: NeuroImage, 2021, ISSN 1053-8119
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118480

Representation of rewards differing in their hedonic valence in the caudate nucleus correlates with the performance in a problem-solving task in dogs (Canis familiaris)

Author(s): Laura V. Cuaya, Raúl Hernández-Pérez, Attila Andics, Rita Báji, Márta Gácsi, Marion Guilloux, Alice Roche, Laurence Callejon, Ádám Miklósi, Dorottya Júlia Ujfalussy
Published in: Scientific Reports, 2023, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-40539-1

Cognitive and sensory capacity each contribute to the canine spatial bias

Author(s): Iotchev, I. B., Bognár, Z., Bel Rhali, S., & Kubinyi, E.
Published in: Ethology, 2024, ISSN 1439-0310
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/eth.13423

Out-of-reach rewards elicit human-oriented referential communicative behaviours in family dogs but not in family pigs

Author(s): Paula Pérez Fraga, Boglárka Morvai, Linda Gerencsér, Fanni Lehoczki, Attila Andics
Published in: Scientific Reports, 2023, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-26503-5

Domestication and exposure to human social stimuli are not sufficient to trigger attachment to humans: a companion pig-dog comparative study

Author(s): Anna Gábor, Paula Pérez Fraga, Márta Gácsi, Linda Gerencsér, Attila Andics
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 14, 2024, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-63529-3

Investigating responses to object-labels in the domestic dog (Canis familiaris)

Author(s): Hanna Kőszegi, Claudia Fugazza, Lilla Magyari, Ivaylo Borislavov Iotchev, Ádám Miklósi, Attila Andics
Published in: Scientific Reports, 2023, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-30201-1

Neural processes underlying statistical learning for speech segmentation in dogs

Author(s): Marianna Boros; Marianna Boros; Lilla Magyari; Lilla Magyari; Lilla Magyari; Dávid Török; Dávid Török; Anett Bozsik; Anett Bozsik; Andrea Deme; Attila Andics; Attila Andics
Published in: Current Biology, 2021, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.10.017

Neural evidence for referential understanding of object words in dogs

Author(s): Marianna Boros, Lilla Magyari, Boglárka Morvai, Raúl Hernández-Pérez, Shany Dror, Attila Andics
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 34, 2024, Page(s) 1750-1754.e4, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.02.029

Speech naturalness detection and language representation in the dog brain

Author(s): Laura V. Cuaya; Raúl Hernández-Pérez; Marianna Boros; Andrea Deme; Attila Andics
Published in: NeuroImage, 2022, ISSN 1053-8119
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118811

Dog and human neural sensitivity to voicelikeness: A comparative fMRI study

Author(s): Anna Bálint, Ádám Szabó, Attila Andics, Márta Gácsi
Published in: NeuroImage, 2023, ISSN 1053-8119
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119791

Body size awareness matters when dogs decide whether to detour an obstacle or opt for a shortcut

Author(s): Péter Pongrácz, Petra Dobos, Tamás Faragó, Enikő Kubinyi & Rita Lenkei
Published in: Scientific Reports, 2023, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-45241-w

Genetic distance from wolves affects family dogs’ reactions towards howls

Author(s): Fanni Lehoczki, Attila Andics, Arik Kershenbaum, Enikő Kubinyi, Daniela Passilongo, Holly Root-Gutteridge, Friederike Range, Vicente Palacios Sánchez, Lori Schmidt, Simon W. Townsend, Stuart K. Watson, Tamás Faragó
Published in: Communications Biology, 2023, ISSN 2399-3642
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-023-04450-9

Alarm or emotion? intranasal oxytocin helps determine information conveyed by dog barks for adult male human listeners

Author(s): Péter Pongrácz, Csenge Anna Lugosi, Luca Szávai, Atina Gengeliczky, Nikolett Jégh-Czinege, Tamás Faragó
Published in: BMC Ecology and Evolution, 2024, ISSN 1471-2148
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12862-024-02198-2

‘Beware, I am large and dangerous’ – human listeners can be deceived by dynamic manipulation of the indexical content of agonistic dog growls

Author(s): Péter Pongrácz, Petra Dobos, Borbála Zsilák, Tamás Faragó, Bence Ferdinandy
Published in: Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2024, ISSN 1432-0762
Publisher: Nature Publishing Gorup
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-024-03452-9beas-d-23-00168r3

Family pigs’ and dogs’ reactions to human emotional vocalizations:a citizen science study

Author(s): Fanni Lehoczki, Paula Pérez Fraga, Attila Andics
Published in: Animal Behaviour, Issue 214, 2024, Page(s) 207-218, ISSN 0003-3472
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2024.05.011

What if the reward is not as yummy? Study of the effects of Successive Negative Contrast in domestic dogs in two different tasks

Author(s): Dzik M. V, Carballo F., Cavalli C., Iglesias M., Faragó T., Kubinyi E., Bentosela M.
Published in: Journal of Veterinary Behavior, 2023, ISSN 1878-7517
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.jveb.2023.12.009

Sleep-physiological correlates of brachycephaly in dogs

Author(s): Iotchev, I. B., Bognár, Z., Tóth, K., Reicher, V., Kis, A., & Kubinyi, E.
Published in: Brain Structure and Function, 2023, ISSN 1863-2661
Publisher: Nature Publishing Gorup
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-023-02706-y

The acoustic bases of human voice identity processing in dogs

Author(s): Anna Gábor; Noémi Kaszás; Tamás Faragó; Paula Pérez Fraga; Melinda Lovas; Attila Andics
Published in: Animal Cognition, 2022, ISSN 1435-9448
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-022-01601-z

Thesis and dissertations (1)

Interspecific socio-communicative abilities of the family dog and the family pig from a comparative ethological perspective

Author(s): Paula Pérez Fraga
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Eötvös Loránd University
DOI: 10.15476/elte.2023.101