Nadja Affenzeller
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first heard Feb 2026
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So where the body knows where your body parts are.
And then, of course, the vestibular system.
So in your inner ear.
And so from these three systems, you integrate the information.
So your body does that automatically and then unconsciously.
And that's how you keep your balance.
And what the pressure mat does that I did, it actually measures what we call the center of pressure.
So center of pressure would be in lay term, like the center of mass from your body and how that and on what point of the mat that
it exactly is at every specific point in time.
So it's a continuous measuring of how your body tries to keep the balance within a certain limit.
So that's what the fundamental basics is of balancing.
So as you can tell, it is actually quite a complex system.
And what we were asking ourselves was what happens if this balancing system gets additional information and that is emotional salient information.
So we know that dogs are very social animals.
We know that they have social cognitive abilities so they can read our emotions.
That's what we know already from other studies.
But what we don't know is what happens to their balancing system.
And that's what we measured.
So basically, when we looked into those three different scenarios, so hearing happy voices, hearing angry voices, or hearing no voice at all, we could see that the so-called support surface, which is the area that the body's trying to limit his movement to stand still,
We saw that this is very high when we speak to them with an angry voice.
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