Dogs choose a human informant: Metacognition in canines

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 293-298

  Mcmahon, Shannon ^a   Macpherson, Krista ^a   Roberts, William A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dogs; Human cueing; Information seeking; Metacognition

Indexed keywords

CANID; COGNITION; COMMUNICATION; PRIMATE; VISUAL CUE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; FEMALE; FOOD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMATE; REWARD;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOGS; FEMALE; HUMANS; REWARD; SPACE PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; PRIMATES;

EID: 78149283907     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2010.07.014     Document Type: Article

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