Spatial Memory of Domestic Dogs (Canis familiaris) for Hidden Objects in a Detour Task

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 497-508

  Fiset, Sylvain ^a   Beaulieu, Claude ^a   LeBlanc, Valérie ^b   Dubé, Lucie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

allocentric spatial information; dead reckoning; domestic dogs; object permanence; spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOG; FEMALE; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECALL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOGS; FEMALE; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 36048966265     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.33.4.497     Document Type: Article

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