The extraordinary olfactory sense of canines combined with the possibility to learn by
operant conditioning enables dogs for their use in medical detection in a wide range of …

Dogs are trained for a variety of working roles including assistance, protection, and detection
work. Many canine working roles, in their modern iterations, were developed at the turn of …

Dogs are increasingly used in a wide range of detection tasks including explosives,
narcotics, medical, and wildlife detection. Research on detection dog performance is …

Simple Summary Dogs are valued for their odor detection capabilities in a vast range of
fields. They help to find hidden and elusive targets, such as explosives, narcotics, missing …

The canine detection community is a diverse one, ranging from scientific fields such as
behavior, genetics, veterinary medicine, chemistry, and biology to applications in law …

Complex odor mixtures have traditionally been thought to be perceived configurally,
implying that there is little identification of the individual components in the mixture. Prior …

Like using a substandard calibrant to test and calibrate an instrumental detector, when
detection canines are regularly exposed to less than optimal training material, their detection …

Effective explosives detection requires dogs to generalize their response to untrained
variations of targets that are related to those with which they were trained. Previous research …

There is a consensus that humans, rodents, and primates process odor mixtures
configurally: that is, the mixture is perceived as a unique whole and not as a collection of its …

Operationally-deployed canine detectors are often trained on one or a limited number of
materials representing a single target odor, and training frequently occurs using materials of …