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The scientists conducted
on 54 dogs. The dogs had to respond to
from their owners. Researchers attached a toy to a
and asked the dog to give the toy to its owner. The dog had to understand it would be unable to take the toy to its
unless it got off the mat first. Many of the dogs understood the
and got off the mat to complete the task. The researchers said this showed a
of body awareness. They wrote that body awareness is, "the ability to hold
about one's own body in mind, as an explicit object, in relation to other objects in the
". They said this is "one of the fundamental building
of self-representation" and that the dogs in the
exhibited this.
