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...
Main Authors: | , , , , |
---|---|
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 |