Odour memory in dogs.

[skinnydipper]

Effects of learning an increasing number of odors on olfactory learning, memory and generalization in detection dogs

Highlights

• Detection dogs required to learn and alert to increasing numbers of target odors.
• Dogs rapidly learn new odors with no decrease in recall of previously trained odors.
• Alert generalization to similar odors unaffected by training on many odors.
• Robust capacity for learning and remembering odors informs K9 maintenance training.


https://www.sciencedirect.com/scien...learned new odor,increase in false alarm rate.

 

[Clodagh]

So fox hounds could hunt for other things!?
(Let’s not really start that debate on AAD, me bad, but it was the first thing I thought of ?).

 

[skinnydipper]

So fox hounds could hunt for other things!?
(Let’s not really start that debate on AAD, me bad, but it was the first thing I thought of ?).

Me, too and nearly posted on the other thread