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Toy exploration in gifted word learner dogs and typical dogs [PDF]

Animal Cognition
Labelling 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, Ádám Miklósi, Silvia Nostri, Andrea Temesi, Claudia Fugazza   +4 more
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Ethology

, 2017
Ethology calls on a wide range of disciplines including genetics, physiology, ecology, developmental biology, and evolution to converge in an integrated view of the organism, its function, and its interactions with its physical system. Among the vertebrates, bird and mammal behaviour have been the subject of much investigation, whereas fish behaviour ...
Fermon, Y., Bigorne, Rémy
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Exploring open science in applied ethology: practice and attitudes among researchers [PDF]

BMC Research Notes
Objective 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 ...
Christian Nawroth, Helen Gray, I. Anna S. Olsson   +2 more
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Perception of animacy leads to expectation of goal-directed behaviour in dogs [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Human 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, Ádám Miklósi, Judit Abdai   +2 more
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Dogs’ reactions to motivations and emotions in conspecific and heterospecific vocalizations [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Vocalizations convey information about both emotional valence (negative/positive) and motivational states (hostile/non-hostile). However, it remains unclear which of these dimensions primarily determines what the listener decodes from vocalizations as ...
Tamás Faragó, Lilla Kocsis, Beatrix Laczi, Irene Rojas Atares, Paula Pérez Fraga, Morgane Audiguier, Soufiane Bel Rhali, Katie E. Slocombe, Enikő Kubinyi, Attila Andics   +9 more
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Not the presence but the timing of acoustic signals influence dogs’ behaviour toward an artificial agent [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Some 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, Zsófia Lévai, Zsuzsanna Gedai, Ádám Miklósi   +3 more
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Recognising dog movement with behaviour-specific machine learning models: bout length as a biologically relevant parameter for window size [PDF]

BMC Veterinary Research
Background Machine learning methods are widely used to detect behavioural data patterns. Although these new mathematical methods are useful tools, the interpretation of the results are often ambivalent unless biologically relevant parameters are included
Gábor Csizmadia, Bálint Daróczy, Bence Ferdinandy, Balázs Nagy, Ádám Miklósi   +4 more
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Occurrences of non-linear phenomena and vocal harshness in dog whines as indicators of stress and ageing

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, Rita Lenkei, Paula Pérez Fraga, Viktória Bakos, Enikő Kubinyi, Tamás Faragó   +5 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, Andrea Temesi, Roberta Coronas, Stefania Uccheddu, Márta Gácsi, Ákos Pogány   +5 more
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Dogs outperform cats both in their testability and relying on human pointing gestures: a comparative study

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, Stefania Uccheddu, Melitta Csepregi, Ádám Miklósi, Márta Gácsi   +4 more
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