Rigorous Training of Dogs Leads to High Accuracy in Human Scent Matching-To-Sample Performance.

Human scent identification is based on a matching-to-sample task in which trained dogs are required to compare a scent sample collected from an object found at a crime scene to that of a suspect. Based on dogs' greater olfactory ability to detect and process odours, this method has been used in...

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Main Authors: Sophie Marchal, Olivier Bregeras, Didier Puaux, Rémi Gervais, Barbara Ferry
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4749222?pdf=render