Founded by @RossanoFederico - We are a research lab at UC San Diego, dedicated to exploring human cognition, how it develops & its evolutionary origins.
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I’m excited to share that @CCLABUCSD is hosting the 2nd annual Detection Dog Trials at UC San Diego on Sunday, March 1, 2026. This is a free, professionally judged event for professional detection dog handler teams (law enforcement and military).
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Today at 9pm ET/PT is the US premiere of the @novapbs documentary "Can Dogs Talk?". It covers the project @CCLABUCSD has been running with thousands of button trained dogs. It is a true honor to be on NOVA and we hope you will find it engaging: pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/can-…
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A brief extract from a fun livestream with awesome colleagues hosted by @valuskaa84, organized by
@TempletonWorld and @Purina. Let's give non-human animals a real chance to show us how intelligent they are. We can only benefit from engaging with nature with an open mind.
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And if you want to join our citizen science study, you can sign up here: cclab.ucsd.edu/pet-cognition…
@UCSanDiego
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If you want to know more about the research, you can check out this online lecture: youtube.com/watch?v=RpjFuPWH…
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On September 28th at 18:30 the French language premiere of the documentary "Can dogs talk?" will air on @CBCRadioCanada Découverte
@CCLABUCSD work on soundboard trained dogs is a central piece of this documentary. English versions will air on PBS NOVA and CBC in early 2026
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I had the most wonderful time presenting @CCLABUCSD current progress on this project to the amazing @Interspecies_io community! If you could not attend but are interested in finding out more about our work, check out the lecture here: youtube.com/watch?v=RpjFuPWH…
🚀 New talk: Can Our Pets Tell Us What They’re Thinking? with @RossanoFederico
Join us and explore the potential and limitations of button-based devices for interspecies communication!
📆Saturday, May 17 ⏰4 pm GMT |12 pm EST |9 am PST 🔗Register here: rb.gy/w8ikcn
Comparative Cognition Lab @ UC San Diego retweeted
Thank you so much for the invitation! Very much looking forward to giving the talk and engaging with your community!
🚀 New talk: Can Our Pets Tell Us What They’re Thinking? with @RossanoFederico
Join us and explore the potential and limitations of button-based devices for interspecies communication!
📆Saturday, May 17 ⏰4 pm GMT |12 pm EST |9 am PST 🔗Register here: rb.gy/w8ikcn
Comparative Cognition Lab @ UC San Diego retweeted
Today (April 30th) is 🔱 #TritonGivingDay Please donate to support the students in the Comparative Cognition Lab studying 10,000 pets from 47 countries in the largest Animal Communication study ever attempted! We need your help! This is Parker tinyurl.com/2s3ksem2 @UCSDalumni
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Thank you @UC_Newsroom for creating this informative and even handed representation of the challenges and opinions around pets pushing buttons to communicate with humans. See below a few papers we published. We have 3 more on the way (one about cats)
youtu.be/cTnVSJ8V4wk?si=LKD8…
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The scent detection dog trials will take place on March 8th-9th in La Jolla (CA) at @UCSanDiego. Professionals and civilians will be competing on different days, judged by professional judges and receiving prizes. This is going to be a one of a kind event!
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@CCLABUCSD is delighted to move into the amazing realm of working dogs and highly trained family dogs. This event will help us develop new tools to better assess and improve dog-handler communication and bond. Sign up here: detectiondogtrialsucsd.com and please RT @UCSDalumni
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“The basic reasons why most people use language are the same reasons why most animals communicate.”
@RossanoFederico explains the blurry line between human language and animal communication on “Babbage” econ.st/4hw5Jt1 🎧
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Thank you for the opportunity!
And if people are interested in signing up for the study they can look for more info and sign up here: cclab.ucsd.edu/pet-cognition…
Do you ever wish you could have a conversation with your pet, or the bird outside your window? This hour, we learn about how animals communicate with one another, how we communicate with them, and what this can teach us about human language with @arikkershenbaum.
Plus, how pets communicate with soundboards with @RossanoFederico.
Listen anytime, wherever you get your podcasts.
ctpublic.org/show/the-colin-…
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On “Babbage” this week, the first episode in a two-part series that explores animal communication and efforts to translate it in the age of AI econ.st/3EBFfrq 🎧
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A few days ago I was asked by @kncukier "whether language is a cognitive ability that’s unique to humans, or just one of many modes of communication dotted across the tree of life". You can hear the conversation that followed here. Stay tuned for the second episode.
On “Babbage” this week, the first episode in a two-part series that explores animal communication and efforts to translate it in the age of AI econ.st/3EBFfrq 🎧
Comparative Cognition Lab @ UC San Diego retweeted
After getting my dog I became fascinated by all the contradictory ways humans treat pets — for example, people who teach their dogs to use buttons to talk. I decided to see what was behind this phenomenon, culturally and scientifically, for NYT Magazine. nytimes.com/2025/01/06/magaz…
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There’s a long, grubby history of animals being trained to “speak” in ways that humans have claimed to understand. But, as @ImogenWK discovers, a new cohort of scientists is trying to decode how they communicate in their own environments econ.st/4fHnPqk 👇