Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0669908

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP0669908

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The Functional Significance of Motor Laterality. Just as humans are left- or right-handed, dogs are left-and right-pawed and, most importantly, left-pawed individuals tend towards innate fearfulness. Using dogs as a model, this project will explore lateralisation in general. Guide dogs and police dogs are required to work only on one side of their handlers. This convention is likely to affect the work of individual dogs. This project will examine the extent to which pawedness predicts success in working dog training. It has the potential to reduce wastage that comes from recruitment of unsuitable dogs and will also improve our understanding of family pets.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 09-05-2007

End Date: 23-09-2010

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $73,950.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Other Behavioural And Cognitive Sciences | Animal Husbandry | Care For Disabled | Animal Production

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Hearing, vision, speech and their disorders | Nervous system and disorders | Behavioural and cognitive sciences |

Other Keywords

Animal Husbandry | Animal Production | Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Care For Disabled | Hearing, vision, speech and their disorders | Nervous system and disorders | Other Behavioural And Cognitive Sciences

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