What do dogs know about hidden objects?

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 439-446

  Miller, Holly C ^a   Rayburn Reeves, Rebecca ^a   Zentall, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Delay; Dogs; Invisible displacement; Object permanence; Visible displacement

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CANID; DOMESTIC SPECIES; MEMORY; SPATIAL COGNITION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DOG; FEMALE; GAZE; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; DARKNESS; DOGS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; MALE; MEMORY; TIME FACTORS; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 66349105726     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2009.03.018     Document Type: Article

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