Word learning in a domestic dog: Evidence for "fast mapping"

Science

Volumn 304, Issue 5677, 2004, Pages 1682-1683

  Kaminski, Juliane ^a   Call, Josep ^a   Fischer, Julia ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL ASPECTS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

LANGUAGE ACQUISITION DEVICES; MEMORY MECHANISM;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DOG; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; DOGS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; VOCABULARY;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LUPUS;

EID: 2942660073     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1097859     Document Type: Article

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23. We thank S. Baus and her family for allowing us to study Rico and for her enthusiastic participation in this study. R. Mundry gave statistical advice, and C. Teufel, M. Hauser, and three anonymous reviewers provided valuable comments on the manuscript. Funding by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft to J.F. (grant Fi707/4) is gratefully acknowledged.