Are juvenile domestic pigs (Sus scrofa domestica) sensitive to the attentive states of humans?-The impact of impulsivity on choice behaviour

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 96, Issue , 2013, Pages 53-58

  Nawroth, Christian ^a   Ebersbach, Mirjam ^b   von Borell, Eberhard ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attentive state; Domestic pig; Human animal interaction; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COGNITION; DOMESTIC SPECIES; JUVENILE; PARADIGM SHIFT; PIG; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; BODY POSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DOMESTIC PIG; FEMALE; HEAD POSITION; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; MALE; NONHUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; SOCIAL COGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; REACTION TIME; SWINE;

EID: 84877811332     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2013.03.002     Document Type: Article

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