Domestic dogs use contextual information and tone of voice when following a human pointing gesture

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Scheider, Linda ^a   Grassmann, Susanne ^b   Kaminski, Juliane ^a   Tomasello, Michael ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL DOG; FEMALE; GAZE; GESTURE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PET ANIMAL; PITCH; POINTING GESTURE; SITTING; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOICE CHANGE; ANIMAL; APPETITE; DOG; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; VOICE;

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; DOGS; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; MALE; VOICE;

EID: 79960281127     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021676     Document Type: Article

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