Fugazza studies dogs’ social cognition—especially how dogs learn from humans, imitate human actions, remember what they and others have done, and acquire and generalize words for objects. Her best-known contribution is the “Do as I Do” method, which uses dogs’ ability to imitate human actions as an experimental tool for studying cognition. Her work has provided evidence for deferred imitation and long-term memory, as well as more complex abilities such as representing their own past actions. A second major line concerns exceptional word-learning dogs—particularly dogs capable of learning many object names—and what this can tell us about individual differences in learning, categorization, generalization and cognitive performance.