Published March 2, 2023 | Version v1
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Data from: Functionally analogous body- and animacy-responsive areas in the dog (Canis familiaris) and human occipito-temporal lobe

  • 1. University of Vienna
  • 2. University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna

Description

Comparing the neural correlates of socio-cognitive skills across species provides insights into the evolution of the social brain and has revealed face- and body-sensitive regions in the primate temporal lobe. Although from a different lineage, dogs share convergent visuo-cognitive skills with humans and a temporal lobe which evolved independently in carnivores. We investigated the neural correlates of face and body perception in dogs (N = 15) and humans (N = 40) using functional MRI. Combining univariate and multivariate analysis approaches, we found functionally analogous occipito-temporal regions involved in the perception of animate entities and bodies in both species and face-sensitive regions in humans. Though unpredicted, we also observed neural representations of faces compared to inanimate objects, and dog compared to human bodies in dog olfactory regions. These findings shed light on the evolutionary foundations of human and dog social cognition and the predominant role of the temporal lobe.

This data set contains:

  • raw functional neuroimaging data of N = 15 dogs
  • structural scans of the same dogs incl. brain masks & skull-stripped versions
  • files containing the condition names, onsets and durations for each dog and task run
  • files containing the motion regressors incl. motion scrubbing for each dog and task run

Data of the comparative human neuroimaging sample will be made available by the first author upon reasonable request.

Please also visit our Open Science Framework project site for detailed sample descriptives and group-level imaging data of both species (https://osf.io/kzcs2/).

Notes

This project was supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): W1262-B29 and by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF), the City of Vienna and ithuba Capital AG [10.47379/CS18012], and the Messerli Foundation (Sörenberg, Switzerland). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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References
Preprint: 10.1101/2021.08.17.456623 (DOI)