Lifespan development of attentiveness in domestic dogs: Drawing parallels with humans

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Wallis, Lisa J ^a,b   Range, Friederike ^a   Müller, Corsin A ^a,b   Serisier, Samuel ^c   Huber, Ludwig ^a   Virányi, Zsófia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c Royal Canin Research Center   (France)

Author keywords

Aging; Attention; Attentional control; Clicker training; Development; Dog; Learning; Lifespan

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897660832     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00071     Document Type: Article

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