Department of Ethology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary; MTA-ELTE 'Lendület' Neuroethology of Communication Research Group, Hungarian Academy of Sciences - Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
Department of Ethology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary; MTA-ELTE Comparative Ethology Research Group, Hungarian Academy of Sciences - Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2018 Feb;85:54-64. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.11.017.
In this review we focus on the exciting new opportunities in comparative neuroscience to study neural processes of vocal social perception by comparing dog and human neural activity using fMRI methods. The dog is a relatively new addition to this research area; however, it has a large potential to become a standard species in such investigations. Although there has been great interest in the emergence of human language abilities, in case of fMRI methods, most research to date focused on homologue comparisons within Primates. By belonging to a very different clade of mammalian evolution, dogs could give such research agendas a more general mammalian foundation. In addition, broadening the scope of investigations into vocal communication in general can also deepen our understanding of human vocal skills. Being selected for and living in an anthropogenic environment, research with dogs may also be informative about the way in which human non-linguistic and linguistic signals are represented in a mammalian brain without skills for language production.
在这篇综述中，我们专注于比较神经科学中令人兴奋的新机会，通过使用 fMRI 方法比较狗和人类的神经活动来研究声音社交感知的神经过程。狗是这个研究领域的一个相对较新的补充；然而，它有很大的潜力成为此类研究中的标准物种。尽管人们对人类语言能力的出现非常感兴趣，但就 fMRI 方法而言，迄今为止大多数研究都集中在灵长类动物内部的同源物比较上。通过属于哺乳动物进化的一个非常不同的分支，狗可以为这些研究议程提供更普遍的哺乳动物基础。此外，扩大对一般声音交流的研究范围也可以加深我们对人类声音技能的理解。由于选择并生活在人为环境中，因此对狗的研究也可以说明在没有语言产生技能的情况下，非语言和语言信号在哺乳动物大脑中的表现方式。
