Citizen science as a new tool in dog cognition research

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Stewart, Laughlin ^a   MacLean, Evan L ^b,c   Ivy, David ^a   Woods, Vanessa ^a,b   Cohen, Eliot ^a   Rodriguez, Kerri ^b   McIntyre, Matthew ^d   Mukherjee, Sayan ^e   Call, Josep ^f,g   Kaminski, Juliane ^h   Miklósi, Ádám ⁱ   Wrangham, Richard W ^j   Hare, Brian ^a,b  

^a Canine Research Department Canines Inc   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d 23 and Me Inc ^*  (United States)

^e Duke University   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ MTA ELTE COMPARATIVE ETHOLOGY RESEARCH GROUP   (Hungary)

^j HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; COGNITION; DOG; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HOUSEHOLD; INTERNET; NONHUMAN; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCIENTIST; TABLET; TEMPERAMENT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION; DOGS; FEMALE; MALE; QUALITY CONTROL; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84945568316     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135176     Document Type: Article

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