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Behavioural and Acoustics Research for K9 Sounds @barkslab.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The BARKS Lab had a fantastic time at #ECBB2026 #ASAB in Cambridge! 🐕🔊🧠 From dog vocal repertoires and barking & howling to emotion, motivation, head shape and neural responses to conspecific calls ,lots of exciting canine science from our team. Thanks to the organisers for a wonderful week!

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Behavioural and Acoustics Research for K9 Sounds @barkslab.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

🎉New study! Our postdoc Melina Cordeau used diffusion MRI in 108 dogs to show how human influence shapes the dog brain across two timescales. Selective breeding reshapes large-scale networks. Training fine-tunes pathways. Brain connectivity predicts trainability. www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

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Selection and learning shape communication networks in the dog brain

Over tens of thousands of years of coevolution with humans, dogs have developed exceptional communicative abilities through both inherited adaptations and individual learning. Using diffusion MRI trac...

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Behavioural and Acoustics Research for K9 Sounds @barkslab.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Big congratulations to our postdoc, Mélina Cordeau, on receiving the Fyssen Foundation Young Researcher Award 2026 in Neurobiology! 🎉 Her research reveals how domestication shaped the neural networks underlying dog–human communication and how dogs' brains respond to the human voice.

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Behavioural and Acoustics Research for K9 Sounds @barkslab.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Congratulations to our postdoctoral researchers, Paula Pérez Fraga @paulapefraga.bsky.social and Rita Lenkei, who were among the winners of the 8th ELTE Science Communication Competition! You can read their award-winning articles here: (EN) elte.hu/paula-perez-... (HU) elte.hu/lenkei-rita-...

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Behavioural and Acoustics Research for K9 Sounds @barkslab.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Conference season is here 🎉 Our postdoc @paulapefraga.bsky.social travelled to London to attend #sciFAW where presented her work on play-panting in dogs. Last week, Csenge Reisinger, former Master's student presented a poster on dog vocalizations and head shape at #ISAZ in Paris.

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Behavioural and Acoustics Research for K9 Sounds @barkslab.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

🎉Check our new study🎉 We found that: - dogs respond more strongly to a caller’s social motivation than to their emotional state. - the processing mechanisms for conspecific vocalizations might not directly generalize to cross-species vocalizations. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Dogs’ reactions to motivations and emotions in conspecific and heterospecific vocalizations - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Dogs’ reactions to motivations and emotions in conspecific and heterospecific vocalizations

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Behavioural and Acoustics Research for K9 Sounds @barkslab.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Yesterday, the PI of the group, Tamás Faragó, gave a talk titled "Are We All Lucky Impostors? – Dilemmas Along the Path of Researchers" at the 10th Forum of the Hungarian Young Academy. #Ethology #Research

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Behavioural and Acoustics Research for K9 Sounds @barkslab.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Our master’s student, Csenge, was accepted to the ASAB Spring Meeting, where she presented a poster on her research. She is studying how different internal states and head shape affect dog vocalizations. #dogbehaviour #bioacoustics #ASAB #cognition

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Behavioural and Acoustics Research for K9 Sounds @barkslab.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Student opportunities (BSc / MSc / Internships) Interested in dog vocal communication, emotion, or dog–human interaction? Join our research group for a short research stay in ethology, bioacoustics & neuroscience . DM us or write us an email to barks.lab.elte@gmail.com #interships #students

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Behavioural and Acoustics Research for K9 Sounds @barkslab.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Thank you for supporting us throughout 2025! Check out our little sum up of it! We can't wait to see the exciting studies and experiences 2026 has to offers! ✨

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Behavioural and Acoustics Research for K9 Sounds @barkslab.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Csenge Reisinger, who is doing her master’s thesis with us, participated in the student competition at the Vet Uni of Budapest last week and she absolutely shined! 🥉 3rd place in the Basic Science section 🏅 Award of the Department of Zoology & the Hungarian Natural History Museum Congratulations🎉👏🌟

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Behavioural and Acoustics Research for K9 Sounds @barkslab.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

We are spending a fantastic weekend in Szeged at the MET (the Hungarian National Ethology Conference). We brought many exciting topics with us! Check out our posters! #vocalizations #ethology #behaviour

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Behavioural and Acoustics Research for K9 Sounds @barkslab.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

📢Meet us!! Paula @paulapefraga.bsky.social is a postdoctoral researcher on the behaviour team. She is interested in animal–human communication and emotions. Her research explores how physiology, vocalizations, and behaviour connect. You can easily find her hiking in the mountains with her dogs.

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Behavioural and Acoustics Research for K9 Sounds @barkslab.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Do you want to help us with our new study?🐕🎤 A new dog vocalization questionnaire is available! How well can you differentiate dogs based on their growls? Find out by filling out our new questionnaire! Click on this link: barks-lab.elte.hu/queries/grow...

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Behavioural and Acoustics Research for K9 Sounds @barkslab.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

📢Meet us!! We’re kicking off our intro series with our PI, Tamás Faragó, PhD, @tamsa42.bsky.social who founded BARKS Lab.🎉 Fascinated by canine vocal communication, during his career Tamás studied growls, barks, whines... Now, he is exploring vocal learning in dogs, the core of our research!

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Behavioural and Acoustics Research for K9 Sounds @barkslab.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Last Friday the Dept. of Ethology held the Dog Ethology Conference 🐾 for the owners who volunteer in our studies. Our postdoc Rita Lenkei spoke about our review of “Talking Dogs,” PhD student Balázs Szigeti volunteered, and PhD student Franceska Furik was in the organizing team. #DogScience

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Behavioural and Acoustics Research for K9 Sounds @barkslab.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Last week at the International Bioacoustics Congress in Kerteminde, the Barks Lab team shared some of our work 🐕🔊 We presented 2 posters and a lively talk :) We also loved catching up with colleagues, making new connections, and getting inspired by the latest in #bioacoustics!

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Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics @braincoustics.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics is back! Please join us next week for fantastic talks from speakers Rada Mihalcea, Álvaro Vega-Hidalgo, and Tamás Faragó @barkslab.bsky.social @radamihalcea.bsky.social 🗓️September 25th 10:00 EST ✅ Register here: braincoustics.com #bioacoustics #neuroskyence

Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics seminar for Thursday, September 25th at 10:00 EST

From Rada Mihalcea and Álvaro Vega-Hidalgo: Cross-Species AI Models for Decoding Animal Communication

From Tamás Faragó: Mapping dogs' vocal repertoires

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Behavioural and Acoustics Research for K9 Sounds @barkslab.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Our first paper is out!!🐕🎤 Talking dogs? How realistic is it? We explore the scientific, cultural, and technological aspects of speech-like communication in dogs, and argue that while they excel at human-directed communication, spoken language may not be feasible or even desirable. #dogscience

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Behavioural and Acoustics Research for K9 Sounds @barkslab.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

We are happy to introduce ourselves to the research community. Who are we? What do we do? 📍 BARKS Lab is a research group at the Department of Ethology, ELTE University. 🐕 We’re exploring vocal learning in dogs, backed by an ERC Consolidator Grant #ethology #animalbehaviour #caninescience #vocal

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