Dr. Mariana Bentosela is a comparative psychologist and researcher of the National Research Council (CONICET) in Argentina. She is interested in animal behavior and works in the area of experimental comparative psychology. In the last years, she created the Canid’s Behavior Research Group (ICOC) to study how learning and experiences during ontogeny modify communicative responses towards humans in domestic dogs.
Recorded OnDemand Lecture: Communication between dogs and humans: are dogs naturally smart or good learners?