Pointing gestures modulate domestic dogs’ search behavior for hidden objects in a spatial rotation problem.
Abstract: In the spatial domain, domestic dogs are highly inclined to search at the last location where they saw an object disappear and cannot infer that a hidden object has moved imperceptibly from one location to another. In the current study, we examined whether exposure to human social cues mod...
| Publicado en: | Learning & Motivation Vol. 44; no. 4; pp. 282 - 294 |
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Academic Press Inc.
Nov2013
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