Border collie comprehends object names as verbal referents

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 184-195

  Pilley, John W ^a   Reid, Alliston K ^b  

^a Wofford College ^*  (United States)

^b WOFFORD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Border collie; Dog; Exclusion learning; Inferential reasoning by exclusion; Receptive language; Referential understanding

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CANID; DOCUMENTARY SOURCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREED; COMPREHENSION; DOG; FEMALE; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; REFERENCE MEMORY; TRAINING; WORD RECOGNITION;

ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOGS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MEMORY; NAMES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOCIALIZATION; VOCABULARY;

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 79551689207     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2010.11.007     Document Type: Article

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