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Paula Pérez Fraga

@paulapefraga.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral researcher at Family Dog Project | I am interested in animal-human interactions, communication, welfare, and emotions | Currently working with dogs but I have a secret love for pigs. | barks-lab.elte.hu/#who | @barkslab.bsky.social‬

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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 · 14/09/2026
Check out this article about our research! Our PI @tamsa42.bsky.social and postdoc Sára Sándor, answered some questions about the evolution of speech and how studying dogs can help us better understand it projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/en/horizon-m...
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What dogs can teach us about the origins of speech
For over 14 000 years, dogs have hunted with us, guarded livestock, herded sheep and, more recently, curled up beside us on the sofa. Along the way, they have become remarkably good at reading our ges...
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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 · 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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Paula Pérez Fraga @paulapefraga.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Cow tool use - www.sciencefocus.com/news/cow-too...
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A cow has been filmed using tools for the first time ever, stunning scientists | BBC Science Focus Magazine
A very clever cow has learned to use sticks to scratch herself, the first time sophisticated tool use has been seen in livestock
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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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Paula Pérez Fraga @paulapefraga.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Cheers to the friends that science has given me! I came to Padua to give a small seminar, and my time here has been amazing 💜 I have learned so much ✨ #animalcognition #ethology #animalbehaviour
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Behavioural and Acoustics Research for K9 Sounds @barkslab.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Our "Talking dogs" review has been featured in @newsweek.com :) Thank you for the opportunity to share our work with the world . www.newsweek.com/dogs-etholog...
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Scientists wanted to know if dogs could one day talk—here’s what they found
Tamás Faragó told Newsweek: "We should look at their behavior, how they interact with humans and how they live together with us."
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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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Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
A recent scientific review examines the biological, cognitive, and ethical factors influencing whether dogs could ever develop speech, highlighting the complexity of canine-human communication. doi.org/g955mh
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Could dogs ever talk? New review weighs science, ethics and evolution
A new scientific review tackles an age-old question: could dogs ever learn to talk? While barking out full sentences might sound like science fiction, researchers are taking a closer look at the biological and technological possibilities behind enhancing canine communication.
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Behavioural and Acoustics Research for K9 Sounds @barkslab.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
The press release for our "Talking dogs" review. 🐕🎤 ethology.elte.hu/en/content/t...
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The Talking Dog Dream: What Science Says About It
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Paula Pérez Fraga @paulapefraga.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
My amazing team members💞
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Paula Pérez Fraga @paulapefraga.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
💞💞 Dogs are Amazing 💞💞 Congrats to my dear friend @asommese.bsky.social and the Gifted Dog's team for this achievement.
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Paula Pérez Fraga @paulapefraga.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Simón wishes you a great Sunday 💜
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
We need to collectively stop legitimizing predatory journals like the MDPI and "Frontiers" journals: don't give them your labor and don't send manuscripts to them (and certainly don't pay them!). I also have been trying my best to remove them from class syllabi as well. 4/4
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Behavioural and Acoustics Research for K9 Sounds @barkslab.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Our P.I., and dog vocalization expert @tamsa42.bsky.social gave this nice interview during #CSF2025 Check it out if you are curious about our work on dog vocal communication and vocal learning :) www.linkedin.com/posts/dogs-a...
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#dogethology #dogcommunication #bioacousticsresearch #canineethology | Dogs and Science
What can your dog’s barks and growls really tell you? At the Canine Science Forum 2025, our Social Media Manager, Jennifer Somers, sat down with canine ethologist and bioacoustician Dr. Tamás Faragó...
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Paula Pérez Fraga @paulapefraga.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
This might be my last dog–pig comparative study (or who knows?). royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Companion pigs alternate orientation between humans and snout-inaccessible targets | Royal Society Open Science
Previous research on intensely human-socialized pigs found no evidence for orientation alternations to direct human attention to an inaccessible target, the benchmark behaviour that in many other spec...
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Laura V. Cuaya @lauveri.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
💚 @paulapefraga.bsky.social @dremilybray.bsky.social
A turquoise square image with the heading “Debut (Taylor Swift)” in large cursive and handwritten fonts. Below, it reads: “Emily E. Bray and colleagues discovered that dogs make their Debut in the world with A Perfectly Good Mind.”
At the bottom is a photo of a happy black-and-white Border Collie named Rohan, wearing an ID badge. Text under the photo says: “Rohan – Our very first dog friend in Budapest.” In the center is a large green heart icon.
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Paula Pérez Fraga @paulapefraga.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
So happy to see this article finally published! I wish you have as much fun reading it as we did writing it! Congrats to my amazing co-authors 💞❤️
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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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Paula Pérez Fraga @paulapefraga.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
This is a short, popular science article I wrote about one of our latest projects www.elte.hu/content/do-w...
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Do wild animals have a favourite human? A study with hand-raised wild boars
Az ELTE VII. Tudománykommunikációs Versenyén 2. helyezést elért cikk.
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Paula Pérez Fraga @paulapefraga.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Muchos nos estáis preguntando por redCIBA y por las actividades que desarrollamos en ella. os dejamos un pequeño resumen de nuestros objetivos y de cómo haceros socios #redCIBA #BienestarAnimal #etologia #produccionanimal #sostenible #welfare #onehealth www.instagram.com/p/DLzcxbstlx...
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Dog Aging Project @dogagingproject.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
If you think it's hot outside, it's even hotter for your doggo! 🌞 Here's a quick summer safety tip and a reminder for when you need to go out and about. 🚗 Check out our blog post for more summer safety tips: dogagingproject.org/the-dog-days....
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Paula Pérez Fraga @paulapefraga.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
💜And here my other favourite species 💜 www.vetmeduni.ac.at/en/universit...
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Pigs are more attentive when addressed by humans
A recently published study by the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna investigated the effect of human cues on the attentiveness and behavior of domestic pigs (Sus scrofa domesticus). Just like d...
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Paula Pérez Fraga @paulapefraga.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
4 days of Canine Science! 🐕🦮🐕‍🦺🐺 #CSF2025
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Paula Pérez Fraga @paulapefraga.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
🐐🐐 I have loved this paradigm since the first time I saw it at a conference :) So cool!! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
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Paula Pérez Fraga @paulapefraga.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
🐽 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Pigs solve a cooperative task without showing a clear understanding of the need for a partner - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Pigs solve a cooperative task without showing a clear understanding of the need for a partner
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Paula Pérez Fraga @paulapefraga.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
So happy to see this finally published! We tested the sensitivity to human ostension in three pig populations with varying levels of human exposure. The best part of this project was meeting people who are now friends for life. Congratulations, Kimberly! www.nature.com/articles/s41....
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Human ostension enhances attentiveness but not performance in domestic pigs - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Human ostension enhances attentiveness but not performance in domestic pigs
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Science for Animal Welfare @scifaw.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
📢 Final call! The deadline to apply for our #AnimalWelfare Student Scholarships is just one week away. This is your chance to gain valuable research experience & help expand our knowledge of the best ways to improve animal welfare. 🔗 Apply here: ufaw.org.uk/awss
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