Canine sense and sensibility: Tipping points and response latency variability as an optimism index in a canine judgement bias assessment

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Starling, Melissa J ^a   Branson, Nicholas ^b   Cody, Denis ^c   Starling, Timothy R ^d   McGreevy, Paul D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c ECOTECH PTY LTD   (Australia)

^d Wikimedia Foundation Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUTOMATION; COGNITIVE BIAS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LABORATORY DEVICE; LATENT PERIOD; NONHUMAN; OPTIMISM; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; RESPONSE TIME; SENSITIVITY AND SENSIBILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEARING; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; REACTION TIME;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DOGS; FEMALE; JUDGMENT; MALE; OPTIMISM; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84907212588     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0107794     Document Type: Article

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