Study Demonstrates Dogs Classifying and Abstracting

Researchers at the University of Vienna completed important groundwork that S.N.A.C.K. will build on.  The subjects were able to:

  1. Remember a particular picture of a dog vs. a landscape,
  2. Demonstrate this knowledge by tapping the touch-screen with their nose, and
  3. Abstract this knowledge to new pictures of dogs and landscapes.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22026675/

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  1. [...] essentially reproduced the classification test we reported on earlier: Once he got going, Rufus was pretty good at identifying the bears in the picture, with an accuracy [...]

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