Dog experts' brains distinguish socially relevant body postures similarly in dogs and humans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Kujala, Miiamaaria V ^a,c   Kujala, Jan ^a   Carlson, Synnöve ^a,b   Hari, Riitta ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c LYON NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; LEARNING; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; SKILL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; DOGS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84862220742     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039145     Document Type: Article

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