The "Unsolvable Task"
Learning about how dogs think about their world is hard when compared to most human psychology research. This is mainly because dogs lack the ability to verbally communicate things like “hey I actually am using my nose not my eyes in this task”. Guess who else can’t speak to researchers about how they are perceiving the study? Babies! For this reason, canine cognition researchers use measures similar to some infant studies, such as looking/gaze and searching behavior to under