Dogs turn left to emotional stimuli

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 208, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 516-521

  Siniscalchi, Marcello ^a   Sasso, Raffaella ^a   Pepe, Anna Maria ^a   Vallortigara, Giorgio ^b   Quaranta, Angelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Behaviour; Cognition; Dog; Emotion; Laterality; Physiology; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; EMOTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SNAKE; SPECIES COMPARISON; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CATS; DOGS; EMOTIONS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEAD MOVEMENTS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SNAKES;

EID: 77249143537     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.12.042     Document Type: Article

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