Can dogs use vocal intonation as a social referencing cue in an object choice task?

abstract：:Due to the high variability in predation risk through space and time, prey have to continuously update information about the risk level posed by predators. Despite numerous studies focusing on temporal risk assessment, we know very little about how individuals deal with information regarding changes in risk level of a...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Ferrari MC,Chivers DP

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-trial learning and long-term memory of "what" and "who" information were examined in an adult gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla). We presented the gorilla with a to-be-remembered food item at the time of study. In Experiment 1, following a retention interval of either approximately 7 min or 24 h, the gorilla res...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Schwartz BL,Colon MR,Sanchez IC,Rodriguez IA,Evans S

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Locating food and refuge is essential for an animal's survival. However, little is known how mammals navigate under natural conditions and cope with given environmental constraints. In a series of six experiments, I investigated landmark-based navigation in free-ranging Columbian ground squirrels (Spermophilus columbi...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Vlasak AN

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Orienting responses (ORs) are whole-organism reflexes that are elicited by innocuous stimuli, and which decrease in magnitude after stimulus repetition. ORs represent relatively simple responses that can be used to study attentional processes, and are modulated by the organism's state, including arousal and activation...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： do Nascimento BG,Oliveira HSTOE,Silva HTL,de Siqueira-Silva DH,Lima-Maximino M,Maximino C

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to use heterospecific alarm calls is adaptive in the wild, as it provides an opportunity to avoid predators. We now know that several species are able to respond to alarm calls intended for others. However, this capacity has never been investigated in domestic animals. The capacity to use heterospecific al...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Dutour M,Danel S

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the Piagetian framework has been used by numerous researchers to compare cognitive abilities of diverse species, the system is often criticized as implemented. I examine the various criticisms, suggest ways in which the system can be improved, and argue for the need for descriptive systems such as the Piageti...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Pepperberg IM

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the hardest problems in studying animal behaviour is to quantify patterns of social interaction at the group level. Recent technological developments in global positioning system (GPS) devices have opened up new avenues for locating animals with unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution. Likewise, advances ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Dahl CD,Ferrando E,Zuberbühler K

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanisms underlying gesture acquisition in primates are largely unstudied, yet heavily debated. While some studies suggest that gestural repertoires are largely innate, others emphasize that gestures emerge and are shaped in social interactions with other conspecifics. There is agreement, however, regarding the negl...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Liebal K,Schneider C,Errson-Lembeck M

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acquiring information about stimuli that predict danger, through either direct experience or inference from a social context, is crucial for individuals' ability to generate appropriate behaviors in response to threats. Utilizing a modified demonstrator-observer paradigm (fear conditioning by proxy) that allows for fr...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Jones CE,Monfils MH

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined whether cats have a cross-modal representation of humans, using a cross-modal expectancy violation paradigm originally used with dogs by Adachi et al. (Anim Cogn 10:17-21, 2007). We compared cats living in houses and in cat cafés to assess the potential effect of postnatal experience. Cats were presented w...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Takagi S,Arahori M,Chijiiwa H,Saito A,Kuroshima H,Fujita K

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the influence of different procedures on chimpanzees' performance in object-choice tasks, five adult chimpanzees were tested using three experimenter-given cues to food location: gazing, glancing, and pointing. These cues were delivered to the subjects in an identical fashion but were deployed within the con...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Barth J,Reaux JE,Povinelli DJ

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Very few experiments have studied the two item same/different relation in young human infants. This contrasts with an extensive animal literature. We tested young infants with two novel tasks designed specifically to provide convergent comparative measures. Each infant completed both tasks allowing an assessment of th...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Addyman C,Mareschal D

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:True tool use has been documented in some bird species, but to our knowledge, it has not been shown in woodpeckers. Here, we investigated the ability of Picoides major to open nuts of Juglans mandshurica by consistently inserting walnuts between tree branches in a specific position that facilitated nut opening. As see...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Yi X,Steele MA,Shen Z

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One model of signal evolution is based on the notion that behaviours become increasingly detached from their original biological functions to obtain a communicative value. Selection may not always favour the evolution of such transitions, for instance, if signalling is costly due to predators usurping signal productio...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Dahl CD,Wyss C,Zuberbühler K,Bachmann I

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of animals to communicate using gaze is a rich area of research. How domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) use and respond to the gaze of humans is an area of particular interest. This study examined how three groups of domestic dogs from different populations (free-ranging dogs, pet dogs, and shelter dog...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Brubaker L,Bhattacharjee D,Ghaste P,Babu D,Shit P,Bhadra A,Udell MAR

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Movement recognition is central to visual perception and cognition, yet its origins are poorly understood. Can newborn animals encode and recognize movements at the onset of vision, or does this ability have a protracted developmental trajectory? To address this question, we used an automated controlled-rearing method...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Goldman JG,Wood JN

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study shows evidence of a domestic cat (Felis catus) being able to successfully learn to reproduce human-demonstrated actions based on the Do as I Do paradigm. The subject was trained to reproduce a small set of familiar actions on command "Do it!" before the study began. To test feature-contingent behavioural si...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Fugazza C,Sommese A,Pogány Á,Miklósi Á

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans are characterized by complex social cognitive abilities that emerge early in development. Comparative studies of nonhuman primates can illuminate the evolutionary history of these social capacities. We examined the cognitive skills that rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) use to follow gaze, a foundational skill in...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Bettle R,Rosati AG

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Great apes can use multiple tools to extract food embedded in substrates and can invent new ways to exploit those resources. We tested five bonobos, five chimpanzees, and six orangutans in a task in which they had to use (and modify) a tool as a straw to drink the juice located inside a container. Experiment 1 showed ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Manrique HM,Call J

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When we compare human gestures to those of other apes, it looks at first like there is nothing much to compare at all. In adult humans, gestures are thought to be a window into the thought processes accompanying language, and sign languages are equal to spoken language with all of its features. Some research firmly em...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Kersken V,Gómez JC,Liszkowski U,Soldati A,Hobaiter C

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social animals have much to gain from observing and responding appropriately to the actions of their conspecific group members. This can in turn lead to the learning of novel behavior patterns (social learning) or to foraging, ranging, or social behavioral choices copied from fellow group members, which do not necessa...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Martin CF,Biro D,Matsuzawa T

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence for different tool kits, proposed to be based upon culture-like transmission, have been observed across different chimpanzee communities across Western Africa. In light of these findings, the reported failures by seven captive juvenile chimpanzees tested with 27 tool use tasks (Povinelli 2000) seem eni...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Furlong EE,Boose KJ,Boysen ST

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sound categorisation plays a crucial role for processing ecological and social stimuli in a species' natural environment. To explore the discrimination and evaluation of sound stimuli in human babies and nonhuman primates, a reciprocal habituation-dishabituation paradigm has been successfully introduced into auditory ...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Konerding WS,Brunke J,Schehka S,Zimmermann E

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pictorial representations of three-dimensional objects are often used to investigate animal cognitive abilities; however, investigators rarely evaluate whether the animals conceptualize the two-dimensional image as the object it is intended to represent. We tested for picture recognition in lion-tailed macaques by pre...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Judge PG,Kurdziel LB,Wright RM,Bohrman JA

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the challenges of animal cognition research is overcoming anthropocentric sensory biases-in particular, favoring visual information and cues despite the dominance of other sensory cues in many nonhuman research subjects. As such, it is particularly important for animal cognition researchers to explicitly mentio...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Horowitz A,Franks B

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urban animals and birds in particular are able to cope with diverse novel threats in a city environment such as avoiding novel, unfamiliar predators. Predator avoidance often includes alarm signals that can be used also by hetero-specifics, which is mainly the case in mixed-species flocks. It can also occur when speci...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Bílá K,Beránková J,Veselý P,Bugnyar T,Schwab C

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pigeons given a simultaneous spatial discrimination reversal, in which a single reversal occurs at the midpoint of each session, consistently show anticipation prior to the reversal as well as perseveration after the reversal, suggesting that they use a less effective cue (time or trial number into the session) than w...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Laude JR,Pattison KF,Rayburn-Reeves RM,Michler DM,Zentall TR

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent decades, cognitive and behavioral knowledge in dogs seems to have developed considerably, as deduced from the published peer-reviewed articles. However, to date, the worldwide trend of scientific research on dog cognition and behavior has never been explored using a bibliometric approach, while the evaluatio...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Aria M,Alterisio A,Scandurra A,Pinelli C,D'Aniello B

更新日期：2020-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:An adult California sea lion ( Zalophus californianus) with extensive experience in performing discrimination learning tasks was tested to evaluate her long-term memory for two previously learned concepts. An associative concept, that of equivalence classification, was retested after a retention interval of approximat...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Reichmuth Kastak C,Schusterman RJ

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interspecific aggression between sibling species may enhance discrimination of competitors when recognition errors are costly, but proximate mechanisms mediating increased discriminative ability are unclear. We studied behavioral and neural mechanisms underlying responses to conspecific and heterospecific vocalization...

journal_title：Animal cognition

authors： Pasch B,Sanford R,Phelps SM

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00