Comparing dogs and great apes in their ability to visually track object transpositions

Animal Cognition

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 789-796

  Rooijakkers, Eveline F ^a,b   Kaminski, Juliane ^a,c   Call, Josep ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dogs; Great apes; Invisible object displacement; Object permanence; Spatial cognition; Spatial transposition

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANTHROPOIDEA; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DOG; FEMALE; GORILLA; HOMINID; MALE; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ANIMALS; DOGS; FEMALE; GORILLA GORILLA; HOMINIDAE; MALE; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO PYGMAEUS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; HOMINIDAE;

EID: 70350356545     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-009-0238-8     Document Type: Article

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