Hannah Salomons

Postdoctoral Associate in the Hare Lab

Academic Interests:
- Social cognition - especially interested in cooperative behavior and social learning
- Conservation psychology and education
- Animal welfare in behavioral/cognitive research settings

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Postdoctoral Associate Evolutionary Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

Recent Publications

Companion dogs flexibly and spontaneously comprehend human gestures in multiple contexts.

Journal Article Animal cognition · November 2024 Dogs' comprehension of human gestures has been characterized as more human-like than that of our closest primate relatives, due to a level of flexibility and spontaneous performance on par with that of human infants. However, many of the critical experimen ... Full text Cite

Longitudinal evidence for the emergence of multiple intelligences in assistance dog puppies.

Journal Article bioRxiv · September 26, 2024 Cognitive test batteries suggest that adult dogs have different types of cognitive abilities that vary independently. In the current study, we tested puppies repeatedly over a crucial period of development to explore the timing and rate at which these diff ... Full text Link to item Cite

Response to Hansen Wheat et al.: Additional analysis further supports the early emergence of cooperative communication in dogs compared to wolves raised with more human exposure.

Journal Article Learning & behavior · June 2023 Here, we address Hansen Wheat et al.'s commentary in this journal in response to Salomons et al. Current Biology, 31(14), 3137-3144.E11, (2021). We conduct additional analyses in response to Hansen Wheat et al.'s two main questions. First, we examine the c ... Full text Cite

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