Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Dogs Can Classify Complex Photos In Categories Like Humans Do


Friederike Range and other colleagues brought four dogs to test whether or not dogs can visually catergorize pictures. Four of the dogs were shown landscape pictures and dog photographs. They were able to catergorize them by using a computer touch-screen. When they showed the dogs the two pictures they would get rewarded for picking the dog photo because that is the correct picture. They also continued on to another test. They continued to show the dogs more landscape pictures and more dog pictures. ScienceDaily

reflection:
i think that dogs could classify complex photos too since they are as intellegent as humans. They can learn from humans so they can also learn at classifying pictures. the four dogs above classify which pictures are dogs. i think the best way to test the four dogs were the tests they did. i like the way they used different pictures to see if the dogs knew which one was the correct one to choose from the other.