phaidra.vetmeduni.ac.at o:1753 DOI 10.1016/j.isci.2022.103820 Recognition of rotated objects and cognitive offloading in dogs Recognition of rotated images can challenge visual systems. Humans often diminish the load of cognitive tasks employing bodily actions (cognitive offloading). To investigate these phenomena from a comparative perspective, we trained eight dogs (Canis familiaris) to discriminate between bidimensional shapes. We then tested the dogs with rotated versions of the same shapes, while measuring their accuracy and head tilts. Although generalization to rotated stimuli challenged dogs (overall accuracy: 55%), three dogs performed differently from chance level with rotated stimuli. The amplitude of stimulus rotation did not influence dogs' performance. Interestingly, dogs tilted their head following the direction and amplitude of rotated stimuli. These small head movements did not influence their performance. Hence, we show that dogs might be capable of recognizing rotated 2D objects, but they do not use a cognitive offloading strategy in this task. This work paves the way to further investigation of cognitive offloading in non-human species. eng Mental Rotation; Pattern-Recognition; Invariance; Stimuli; Features; Pigeons; Cortex; Image; Hands; Sex 2023-06-22T09:12:23.711Z LOMv1.0 Author BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Lonardo;Lucrezia; FN:Lucrezia Lonardo X-ORCID:https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7006-3766 END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Versace;Elisabetta; FN:Elisabetta Versace END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Huber;Ludwig; FN:Ludwig Huber X-ORCID:https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0217-136X END:VCARD https://w3id.org/kim/hcrt/scheme https://w3id.org/kim/hcrt/text Textdokument Text LOMv1.0 yes https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 application/pdf 2758667 https://phaidra.vetmeduni.ac.at/o:1753 https://phaidra.vetmeduni.ac.at/api/object/o:1753/thumbnail LOMv1.0 discipline