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Laura V. Cuaya

@lauveri.bsky.social
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Everyone knows that dogs are amazing. I think that dogs' brains are also fascinating! 🐶 💕 🧠 Having a marvelous time studying dogs' brains with fMRI at SCAN Unit 😊 ✨Shimmering in enchanting Vienna ✨

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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The science of happier dogs: 5 tips to help your canine friends live their best life
Science from a four-paw perspective can help us reconsider our everyday interactions with dogs and influence positive changes so we can live well, together.
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 11/08/2026
Brain scans suggest that dogs can tell the difference between happy human faces and negative ones, and that their brains can also distinguish some negative facial expressions like fear and anger! 🧪 www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Trained pet dogs remained awake during fMRI scans as researchers measured their brain activity while they viewed images of human faces expressing happiness, anger, fear, and sadness.

Credit: Laura V. CuayaAcross human facial expressions, happiness has the strongest representation in the dog brain.

Brain response patterns differentiate not only between positive and negative stimuli, but also among some negative human facial expressions.

Within negative valence, fear may carry the most prominent representation in the dog brain.
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Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at · 11/08/2026
Wissenschafter*innen – und Hundeliebhaber*innen – wissen schon lange, dass Hunde bemerkenswert gut darin sind, menschliches Lachen, Stirnrunzeln & Tränen zu deuten. 🐶 Gehirnscans liefern nun erstmals den Nachweis, dass Hunde zwischen bestimmten negativen Gesichtsausdrücken unterscheiden können. 🧠 ⤵️
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Gehirnscans zeigen: Hunde können Emotionen in menschlichen Gesichtern unterscheiden
Forscher*innen lieferten den ersten Beweis überhaupt dafür, dass Hunde Emotionen in menschlichen Gesichtsausdrücken erkennen können
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Laura V. Cuaya @lauveri.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
If you live with dogs, you probably already know that they pay close attention to our emotions. 🐶
 But what happens in their brains when they look at our faces? 🧠 Our paper on how dogs' brains represent human emotional faces is out today in @cp-iscience.bsky.social 
🌼 doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 24/07/2026
A new study of great ape laughter also gives clues about how humans’ ancient ancestors started speaking.
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Differences in human and great ape laughter reveal clues to the origin of speech
A new study of great ape laughter also gives clues about how humans’ ancient ancestors started speaking.
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Leela Channer @leelachanner.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
My first publication! Grateful to have had the opportunity to work on this with such an amazing and global team – and good fun to work the on the press and social media releases.
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Animal Behaviour Live @animalbehaviour.live · 03/08/2026
📢 Hi Bluesky, it's us again! If you prefer, submit a 5-min video poster for #ABL2026! Hosted on YouTube with live Q&A on Discord! 📅 Nov 12 | Free, online, worldwide 🌍Studying Behaviour In A Changing World 🔗 Learn more, register, submit Register here: lnkd.in/eGs--Ueq
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karoger.bsky.social @karoger.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I am happy to share that the second paper of my PhD has been published 🥳 I got to work with dog puppies at the age of 6 to 8 weeks 🐶😍 and test them in an Overimitation task: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
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Christoph Völter @christophvoelter.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Join us in Vienna! We are looking for a #PhD student and a #Postdoc to investigate #innovation in great #apes: PhD ad: share.eva.mpg.de/index.php/s/... Postdoc ad: share.eva.mpg.de/index.php/s/... Application deadline: August 17th. Please share widely!
A chimp solving a puzzle box problem. Photo credit: MPI-EVA
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
New 🫏 🔽 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
2026. Domestic goats can follow the direction of human voices to solve a hidden-object task. new from us, led by @chimpsahoi.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
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Laura V. Cuaya @lauveri.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
What is better than one dog playing? Seventeen dogs, of course 😊 🐶 Check out our open Zenodo dataset on dog sounds during social play zenodo.org/records/1897...
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Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró) @biotay.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
1/10 Each species lives in a different temporal world. Just as each species lives in its own “Umwelt”, this Umwelt includes a “timescape”. The authors of this study (@singhal.bsky.social, J. Birch, and A. Seth) propose five “windows” to study it. (paper) linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii...
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/21/science/chameleons-sticky-spit.html
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Goats can find food by following a human voice. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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Goats can find food by following a human voice, study finds
Experiments show 29 animals moved towards a treat-filled bucket 60% of the time when guided by a researcher
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Dr. Helena Hartmann (she/her) @helenahartmann.com · 18/06/2026
We need a few more people, please consider participating in this very short study - you can also win something! 😁
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Andrea Sommese @asommese.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Is your cat truly happy? New research provides answers 🥼 We all think our cats are doing great 🐈 our study of 400+ caretakers found an average quality of life score of 89/100. But when we looked more closely, the picture was more nuanced 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ap... #CatWelfare #AnimalWelfare #Cats
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Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró) @biotay.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
1/16 Do other species understand death? In this study with cockatoos, we approach this question from its foundation, by studying one of its central components: sensitivity to the permanent loss of a function. I will explain it in this thread (with videos) (paper) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Andrea Sommese @asommese.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
After years of working with Gifted dogs, this paper marks the end of that chapter for me 🐕 We compared gifted and typical dogs and found that what sets gifted dogs apart may not be curiosity, but their social motivation Grateful to the dogs and their humans 💙 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Toy exploration in gifted word learner dogs and typical dogs - Animal Cognition
Labelling has a pronounced effect on increasing infants’ attention to objects. At the same time, infants actively seek social cues when presented with novel objects and early signs of communicative in...
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Max Steininger @maxsteininger.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Our preregistered systematic review & meta-analysis published in Nature Mental Health shows that nature exposure is linked to small-to-moderate reductions in self-reported pain (SMD = .53; N = 4,439). But high heterogeneity and moderate-to-high risk of bias call for a cautious interpretation (1/5)
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Nature exposure reduces self-reported pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis - Nature Mental Health
The authors conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of 62 studies, including more than 4,400 participants across 21 countries, to investigate the effects of nature exposure on self-reported pa...
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Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró) @biotay.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Cow Tools! We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years. We breed them and exploit them It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS Here I describe our study (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social with @auersperga.bsky.social
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Boryana Todorova @todorova.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I’m thrilled to share that our paper “Effort and time costs influence motivational asymmetries in self-benefitting vs. pro-environmental decisions” is now published in Communications Psychology! 🌿 OA link: www.nature.com/articles/s44... 1/6
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Effort and time costs influence motivational asymmetries in self-benefitting vs pro-environmental decisions - Communications Psychology
People are less willing to incur time and effort costs for the environment than for themselves, with computational modeling revealing nonlinear discounting of time and effort linked to support for cos...
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Andrea Sommese @asommese.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Just posted a new preprint! Our project builds on @maleenthiele.bsky.social's earlier work and came together through a collaboration with her and @christophvoelter.bsky.social Preprint link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Luise Graichen @graichenl.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
✨My first first-author paper is out✨ Entorhinal grid-like codes for visual space during memory formation in @natcomms.nature.com ➡️ rdcu.be/eLRm2 Big thanks to everyone ‪@isabellacwagner.bsky.social‬, @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social, @olejensen.bsky.social, @doellerlab.bsky.social, @clauslamm.bsky.social
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Entorhinal grid-like codes for visual space during memory formation
Nature Communications - Eye movements during scene viewing are tied to grid-like codes in the entorhinal cortex. Grid signals are specific to later remembered scenes, covary with activity in...
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Laura V. Cuaya @lauveri.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
It’s been a long time coming. To commemorate August 2024, we celebrate one era at a time, each with a wonderstruck study and a sparkling canine mind. Welcome to The Mind Tour, Dogs’ Version! 🎉
A grid of twelve portraits of different dogs, each on a colorful background, styled like a concert poster. Each dog represents a different "era" in a fictional tour called The Mind Tour, Dogs’ Version. In the center, one dog wears a denim jacket, evoking a headlining artist. The bottom of the image features large bold text that reads: "DOGS’ VERSION – THE MIND TOUR." The design is inspired by Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour visuals, reimagined with dogs.
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Laura V. Cuaya @lauveri.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
In meiner Forschung untersuche ich die neuronalen Grundlagen sozialer Kognition von Hunden. Ich möchte verstehen wie Umweltfaktoren das Hundehirn evolutionär so geprägt haben, dass Hunde besonders gut mit Personen kommunizieren und Bindungen eingehen 1/2 #IchForscheGernInWien #TopForschungWien #Wien
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