This digital event discusses the latest developments in our knowledge about canine cognition. The event was stimulated by a special issue of the Psychonomic Society’s journal Learning & Behavior. The following posts, listed in their order of publication, contributed to this event:

• Stephan Lewandowsky kicked off the discussion and provided an overview of the special issue.
• Jeff Katz and Ludwig Huber, the guest editors of the special issue, explain why canine cognition is of such interest, namely because dogs provide a model for short-term cognitive evolution.
• Shannon Kunney examined the extent to which dogs are capable of genuine empathy and prosocial helping behaviour.
• Péter Pongrácz asked how dogs manage to live in a world full of strangers.
• William Roberts investigated whether dogs have a theory of mind or whether they are merely capable of a theory of attention.
• Lucia Lazarowski addressed the conundrum of why dogs will obey commands that are clearly deceptive.
• Finally, one of our Digital Associate Editors, Heather Hill, explained how important fairness is to many species—from humans to capuchin monkeys and also to dogs.