COGNICIÓN ANIMAL: ¿LOS PERROS NOS “LEEN LA CARA? UN ESTUDIO PRELIMINAR SOBRE LA DISCRIMINACIÓN DE EXPRESIONES EMOCIONALES EN PERROS
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2016-06-20
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Jaén: Universidad de Jaén
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[ES]El objetivo principal de este trabajo de fin de máster es poner a prueba la tarea de
igualación a la muestra como procedimiento para explorar las capacidades de los perros
para identificar y distinguir emociones en las personas a través de expresiones faciales.
Para ello se cogió a un único participante, Dune, un perro Golden Retriever de 6 años,
previamente entrenado, a la que se le pasó esta tarea de igualación a la muestra. En dicha
prueba, se le mostró al perro una imagen de muestra con cara de felicidad o tristeza y
tenía que tocar la cara con la misma expresión emocional entre dos imágenes de prueba.
Los resultados mostraron un 63.9% de aciertos, lo que podría indicar que el perro puede
distinguir entre imágenes de tristeza y alegría. Sin embargo, debido a que solamente se
ha utilizado un animal y los resultados son próximos al nivel de azar (50%) no se puede
generalizar estos resultados.
[EN]The main objective of this final Master’s Thesis is to prove the matching to sample task like a process to explorer the capacity of the dogs identifying and discriminating emotions in people thought facial expressions. To do this we took only one participant, Dune, a 6 years old Golden Retriever dog, previously trained, which it was pass the matching to sample task. In this task we show a sample image with a face of happiness or disgust to the dog and it had to touch the face with the same emotional expression between two images. Results shown a 63.9% of correct answers, which could indicate that the dog can distinguish between happiness and disgust images. However, because of we just use one animal and the results are close to the chance level (50%), we cannot generalize these results.
[EN]The main objective of this final Master’s Thesis is to prove the matching to sample task like a process to explorer the capacity of the dogs identifying and discriminating emotions in people thought facial expressions. To do this we took only one participant, Dune, a 6 years old Golden Retriever dog, previously trained, which it was pass the matching to sample task. In this task we show a sample image with a face of happiness or disgust to the dog and it had to touch the face with the same emotional expression between two images. Results shown a 63.9% of correct answers, which could indicate that the dog can distinguish between happiness and disgust images. However, because of we just use one animal and the results are close to the chance level (50%), we cannot generalize these results.