Are temporal features crucial acoustic cues in dog vocal recognition?

Animal Cognition

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 815-821

  Siniscalchi, Marcello ^a   Lusito, Rita ^a   Sasso, Raffaella ^a   Quaranta, Angelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Auditory system; Behaviour; Dog; Laterality; Physiology; Vocalizations

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DOG; FEMALE; HEARING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECOGNITION; TIME; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CUES; DOGS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; PRIMATES;

EID: 84865422410     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-012-0506-x     Document Type: Article

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