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Investigating responses to object-labels in the domestic dog (Canis familiaris)
Scientific Reports, 2023 Since the dawn of comparative cognitive research, dogs were suspected to possess some capacity for responding to human spoken language. Neuroimaging studies have supported the existence of relevant mechanisms, but convincing behavioral performance is ...
Hanna Kőszegi +5 more
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Scientific Reports, 2022 The prolonged lifespan of companion dogs has resulted in increased behavioural and physical challenges linked to old age. The development of behavioural tests to identify and monitor age-related differences has begun.
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Porcine Health Management, 2022 Background The practice of mixing unfamiliar pigs on farms is common but results in fighting, welfare problems and performance issues. Pigs have different ways of resolving social conflicts, including aggressive and affiliative behaviours.
Míriam Marcet-Rius +7 more
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Developmental features of sleep electrophysiology in family dogs
Scientific Reports, 2021 Age-related differences in dog sleep and the age at which dogs reach adulthood as indexed by sleep electrophysiology are unknown. We assessed, in (1) a Juvenile sample (n = 60) of 2–14-month-old dogs (weight range: 4–68 kg), associations between age ...
Vivien Reicher +6 more
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Revista de Medicina Veterinaria, 2007 The following document arises from the study, reflection of the educational and professional practice of its authors, in order to socialize arguments, concepts and methodologies offered by the sciences of the behavior animal (among them the ethology), to
María Teresa Uribe Mallarino +2 more
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Scientific Reports, 2023 Dogs that have a vocabulary of object labels (Gifted Word Learner dogs—GWL dogs) have great potential as a comparative model for studying a variety of cognitive mechanisms. However, only a handful of studies, with a small sample size of 1 or 2 dogs, have
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Acquisition and long-term memory of object names in a sample of Gifted Word Learner dogs
Royal Society Open Science, 2021 Dogs with a vocabulary of object names are rare and are considered uniquely gifted. In a few cases, these Gifted Word Learner (GWL) dogs have presented cognitive skills that are functionally similar to those of human infants.
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Scientific Reports, 2023 Human-oriented referential communication has been evidenced not only in domestic but also in some wild species, however, the importance of domestication-unrelated species’ characteristics in the emergence of this capacity remains largely unexplored.
Paula Pérez Fraga +4 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Separation related disorder in dogs is a multi-faceted phenomenon. Dogs can react to the absence of their owner due to different inner states such as fear, panic or frustration.
Rita Lenkei +3 more
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Theory & Psychology, 2022 Cognitive psychology considers the environment as providing information, not affecting fundamental information processes. Thus, cognitive psychology’s traditional paradigms study responses to precisely timed stimuli in controlled environments. However, new research demonstrates the environment does influence cognitive processes and offers cognitive ...
Helen L. Ma +3 more
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