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    Dogs possess some form of olfactory self-recognition — Carmelics
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    Dogs possess some form of olfactory self-recognition

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    • 1.Dogs presented with urine samples from themselves and other dogs spend less time sniffing their own urine marks
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    • 2.Differential attention to self-produced versus other-produced stimuli indicates self-recognition
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    • 1.Differential attention to stimuli can be fully explained by habituation to familiar odors without invoking any representational self-model.
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    • 2.Gordon Gallup's criterion for self-recognition requires an animal to use information about its own body to modify self-directed behavior, which olfactory sniff-duration data does not demonstrate.
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    • 1.Self-recognition minimally requires that an organism represent the stimulus as 'mine' rather than merely as 'familiar,' a distinction Bermúdez argues requires higher-order conceptual capacities.
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    • 2.Dogs lack the neocortical architecture associated with episodic self-modeling, making a genuine first-person indexical representation of self-produced odors neurophysiologically implausible.
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    Differential attention to self-produced versus other-produced stimuli ...78%Dogs fail the MSR test but pass an analogous olfactory self-recognitio...78%Bodily sensations can be perceptual even though they are only about on...71%The mirror self-recognition (MSR) test is a value-laden study design t...71%

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    Another good example of how the design of studies in comparative cognition is value-laden is the mirror self-recognition (MSR) test, which was originally envisioned by Gordon Gallup (1970) to probe animals’ self-awareness. In this test, an animal is first allowed to become familiarized with a mirror. In a second step, the animal is anesthetized and an odorless mark is painted on their forehead. The behavior of the animal in front of the mirror is then observed, to see whether they interact with
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