Editing Dog intelligence (section)

{{Short description|Intellectual capacity of dogs}}
{{Use American English|date=May 2022}}
'''Dog intelligence''' or '''dog cognition''' is the process in [[dog]]s of acquiring information and conceptual skills, and storing them in memory, retrieving, combining and comparing them, and using them in new situations.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Humphreys |first=L. G. |year=1979 |title=The construct of general intelligence |journal=Intelligence |volume=3 |pages=105–120 |doi=10.1016/0160-2896(79)90009-6 |issue=2}}</ref>

Dogs have about twice the number of neurons in their cerebral cortexes as cats do, which suggests they could be about twice as intelligent.{{r|ng}}

Studies have shown that dogs display many behaviors associated with [[intelligence]]. They have advanced memory skills, and are able to read and react appropriately to human body language such as gesturing and pointing, and to understand human voice commands. Dogs demonstrate a [[theory of mind]] by engaging in deception, and [[self-awareness]] by detecting their own smell during the "sniff test", a proposed [[Sense of smell|olfactory]] equivalent to the [[mirror test]].