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Toy exploration in gifted word learner dogs and typical dogs [PDF]
Animal CognitionLabelling has a pronounced effect on increasing infants’ attention to objects. At the same time, infants actively seek social cues when presented with novel objects and early signs of communicative intent are considered essential for language learning ...
Andrea Sommese +4 more
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Shape and texture biases in dogs’ generalization of trained objects [PDF]
Scientific ReportsShape bias, the tendency to link the meaning of words to the shape of objects, is a widely investigated phenomenon, but the extent to which it is linked to vocabulary acquisition and/or to tool using is controversial.
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Not the presence but the timing of acoustic signals influence dogs’ behaviour toward an artificial agent [PDF]
Scientific ReportsSome features of communicative signals may only direct the attention of the receiver to the signaller, and others may convey specific aspects of the message.
Judit Abdai +3 more
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Perception of animacy leads to expectation of goal-directed behaviour in dogs [PDF]
Scientific ReportsHuman newborns preferentially attend to self-propelled objects, and three-month-olds expect them to act in a goal-directed manner. Dogs also prefer animate objects, and anticipate human actions to be goal-driven, but it is unclear whether perceiving an ...
Zsuzsanna Gedai +2 more
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Exploring open science in applied ethology: practice and attitudes among researchers [PDF]
BMC Research NotesObjective In light of the replication crisis, transparency is critical for impactful research. This is particularly relevant for animal-based research fields, like Applied Ethology, where ethical obligations demand both scientific integrity and ...
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Scientific Reports, 2021 During social interactions, acoustic parameters of tetrapods’ vocalisations reflect the emotional state of the caller. Higher levels of spectral noise and the occurrence of irregularities (non-linear phenomena NLP) might be negative arousal indicators in
András Marx +5 more
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Scientific Reports, 2023 The dog is a so far unique species to study interspecific communication and a promising evolutionary model for preverbal human communication. Recently cats were reported to show some similar skills to dogs.
Attila Salamon +4 more
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Spontaneous action matching in dog puppies, kittens and wolf pups
Scientific Reports, 2023 We investigated the spontaneous tendency of dog puppies, kittens and wolf pups to match their behaviour to actions demonstrated by a human, in the absence of food reward.
Claudia Fugazza +5 more
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Human activity recognition of children with wearable devices using LightGBM machine learning
Scientific Reports, 2022 Human activity recognition (HAR) using machine learning (ML) methods has been a continuously developed method for collecting and analyzing large amounts of human behavioral data using special wearable sensors in the past decade. Our main goal was to find
Gábor Csizmadia +4 more
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Word learning dogs (Canis familiaris) provide an animal model for studying exceptional performance
Scientific Reports, 2021 Exceptional performance is present in various human activities but its origins are debated and challenging to study. We report evidence of exceptional performance and qualitative variation in learning object-names in dogs.
Claudia Fugazza +4 more
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