A dog at the keyboard: Using arbitrary signs to communicate requests

Animal Cognition

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 329-338

  Rossi, Alexandre Pongrácz ^a   Ades, César ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Arbitrary signs acquisition; Dog human communication; Keyboard use

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; DOG; FEMALE; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; OBJECT RELATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REINFORCEMENT;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BONDING, HUMAN-PET; CONCEPT FORMATION; DOGS; FEMALE; LANGUAGE; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 40949123558     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-007-0122-3     Document Type: Article

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