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Dr Juliane Kaminski is a scientist at the University of Portsmouth where she is recognized as a leading expert on dog cognition and has been featured in the National Geographic and on Discovery News. Juliane works to discover what we can learn from one of our closest living domesticated species, the domestic dog. Juliane to going to tell us about her research interests, which include social cognition, communication and cooperation in human infants, primates and dog. Dogs being an important study species when it comes to comparative psychology. Most famously Juliane was the first to show that a dog named Rico learns words in a similar fashion as human infants.
Our second speaker is Joanna Jones, Joanna is supported by Marshall her Registered Assistance Dog. There are now over 7000 Registered Assistance Dogs in the UK that support people with disabilities and medical conditions. As well as Guide Dogs, other types include Hearing Dogs, Medical Alert Dogs and Autism Dogs. Hearing Dogs in particular, help their partners leave loneliness behind and reconnect with life. Joanna will talk about life with Marshall and the difference he makes to her world.