Replication Data for: Fundamental Learning Differences Across Five Dog Breed Clades: Breed-specific Predispositions, Individual Experiences, or a Fusion of Both?

The current study's objective was to identify differences in fundamental learning features across and within five breed clades and elucidate the underlying factors contributing into these differences. Dogs (N=111) from five different breed clades (UK Rural, Retrievers, Asian Spitz, European Mastiff, and New World) participated in a virtual learning task with their owners.

Owners completed validated questionnaires of Impulsivity and Reward Responsiveness. The learning task comprised of reinforcing an arbitrary behaviour (hand-touch) through multiple sessions of Acquisition (reinforcing the hand-touch), Discrimination (reinforcing the hand-touch on one of two hands) and Reversal Learning (reinforcing the hand-touch on the opposite hand), followed by a single session of Extinction (hand-touch not reinforced).