Dog-logic: inferential reasoning in a two-way choice task and its restricted use

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 725-737

  Erdohegyi, Ágnes ^a   Topál, József ^b   Virányi, Zsófia ^a   Miklósi, Ádám ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLOGY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Canis familiaris; cognition; decision by exclusion; deduction; dog; reasoning

Indexed keywords

CANID; COGNITION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 35148885561     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.03.004     Document Type: Article

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