Two-item sentence comprehension by a dog (Canis familiaris)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Ramos, Daniela ^a   Ades, Cesar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; FEMALE; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; STIMULATION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEMANTICS; TIME;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

ANIMALS; COMPREHENSION; DOGS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84856521431     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029689     Document Type: Article

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