Smiles activated a distinct canine brain network, while fear produced patterns different from other negative expressions.

For generations, dog owners have believed their pets can sense when something is wrong. Now scientists say they have found the first direct evidence in a dog’s brain showing that the animal can ...

Dogs have a special social relationship with humans that reveals itself in various ways. Of course, depending on the autobiography of a particular individual, his or her own relationship with humans ...

Dogs may understand our emotions more deeply than scientists realized. Brain scans show that happy human faces activate regions in dogs linked to higher-level processing and reward, suggesting that ...

New findings suggest that dogs have developed specialized brain regions for identifying human emotions. Their brain ...

Dogs blink more when watching their owners blink, suggesting tiny facial movements may reflect the social bond between them.

Scientists—and dog lovers—have long known that dogs are remarkably good at interpreting our laughs, frowns and tears. But the biology behind this ability has remained largely unexplored until now. In ...

Border Collie getting an fMRI to measure brain activity when presented with different human expressions. (Image Courtesy of Laura V. Cuaya) Laura Cuaya calls herself a cat person. Yet the two dogs who ...

There’s a reason dogs are trusted as emotional companions. If it seems like they have a nearly supernatural ability to sense human emotion, it’s because they practically do. As researchers at the ...