Cross-modal Perception of Puppies and Adult Conspecifics in Dogs (Canis familiaris).
Understanding conspecifics' age classes is crucial for animals, facilitating adaptive behavioral responses to their social environment. This may include gathering and integrating information through multiple modalities. Using a cross-modal preferential-looking paradigm, we investigated whether dogs...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Comparative Psychology Vol. 138; no. 4; pp. 246 - 259 |
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American Psychological Association
Nov2024
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=181653418&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 181653418 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 07357036 JCY jtl: Journal of Comparative Psychology issn: 07357036 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Nov2024 vid: 138 iid: 4 pid: 34 pub: American Psychological Association artinfo: ui: 181653418 10.1037/com0000385 ppf: 246 ppct: 13 formats: tig: atl: Cross-modal Perception of Puppies and Adult Conspecifics in Dogs (Canis familiaris). aug: au: Kawaguchi, Yuri Virányi, Zsófia Faragó, Tamás Huber, Ludwig Völter, Christoph J. affil: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Comparative Cognition, Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna Neuroethology of Communication Lab, Department of Ethology, Eötvös Loránd University keyword: cross-modal recognition dogs eye tracking puppy whining cross-modal recognition dogs eye tracking puppy whining ab: Understanding conspecifics' age classes is crucial for animals, facilitating adaptive behavioral responses to their social environment. This may include gathering and integrating information through multiple modalities. Using a cross-modal preferential-looking paradigm, we investigated whether dogs possess a cross-modal mental representation of conspecific age classes. In Experiment 1, dogs were presented with images of an adult dog and a puppy projected side by side on a wall while a vocalization of either an adult dog or a puppy was played back simultaneously. To test the effect of relative body size between adult dog and puppy images, two size conditions (natural size and same size) were employed for visual stimuli. We examined dogs' looking behavior in response to cross-modally matched versus mismatched stimuli. We predicted that if dogs have cross-modal representations of age classes, they would exhibit prolonged attention toward matched images compared to mismatched ones. In Experiment 2, we administered the same paradigm within an eye-tracking experiment to further improve the measurement quality of dogs' looking times. However, dogs' looking times in either experiment did not demonstrate significant differences based on the match or mismatch between image and vocalization. Instead, we observed a size effect, indicating dogs' increased attention toward larger adult dog images compared to smaller puppy images. Consequently, we found no evidence of cross-modal representation of age class in dogs. Nonetheless, we found increased looking time and pupil size upon hearing puppy vocalizations compared to adult vocalizations in Experiment 2, suggesting that dogs exhibited heightened arousal when hearing puppy whining. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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