She is also part of the associated Family Dog Project. Márta’s PhD research focused on the attachment behaviour of dogs towards their owner(s). She is an expert in Cognitive Science, and is currently involved in a range of projects ranging from ethorobotics (the application of canine interspecific social behaviours as a model for designing more “social” service robots), inter and intraspecific vocal communication of dogs, to human-dog communication. Her primary research interest is the ethological analysis of dog-human relationship and the role of domestication in dogs’ socio-cognitive abilities