SQI Seminar Series: Daphna Buchsbaum, Brown University

Title: How Dogs Work With Us: Understanding Attention and Collaboration Across Species Abstract: Dogs are familiar companions and working partners, but how do they understand our collaborative interactions? Which features of joint attention are uniquely human, and which also emerge in human-dog partnerships? I will draw on studies of visual exploration, point following, and collaborative search to examine what human-dog coordination reveals about joint attention. Evidence from head-mounted eye-tracking and behavioral tasks shows that dogs actively direct attention in everyday environments, fol