What or Where? The Meaning of Referential Human Pointing for Dogs (Canis familiaris).

Dogs have a unique capacity to follow human pointing, and thus it is often assumed that they can comprehend the referential meaning of such signals. However, it is still unclear whether dogs perceive human directional gestures as signals referring to a target object (indicating what to manipulate) o...

Full description

Bibliographic Details

Published in:	Journal of Comparative Psychology Vol. 129; no. 4; pp. 334 - 339
Main Authors:	Tauzin, Tibor, Csík, Andor, Kis, Anna, Topál, József
Format:	Article
Published:	American Psychological Association Nov2015
Subjects:	Dog behavior Human-animal communication Spatial ability Perception in animals Acquisitiveness
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost