Domestic dogs use contextual information and tone of voice when following a human pointing gesture [PDF]
, 2011 Domestic dogs are skillful at using the human pointing gesture. In this study we investigated whether dogs take contextual information into account when following pointing gestures, specifically, whether they follow human pointing gestures more readily ...
Grassmann, Susanne +16 more
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Effects of Pointing Errors on Intensity Losses in the Optical LEO Uplink
, 2022 Different pointing errors from different sources cause an angular deviation in the uplink beam transmitted from an optical ground station (OGS) to a satellite.
Knopp, Marcus Thomas +4 more
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Dogs (Canis familiaris), but not chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), understand imperative pointing [PDF]
, 2012 Chimpanzees routinely follow the gaze of humans to outside targets. However, in most studies using object choice they fail to use communicative gestures (e.g. pointing) to find hidden food.
Michael Tomasello (31692) +14 more
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Triadic interactions with tools in a gorilla.
Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2017 Triadic interactions are an important developmental milestone for young human infants, ultimately enabling them to acquire language. When an infant and a caregiver share attention regarding an object, the label given to the object becomes linked with the
Eva Maria Luef , Adolf Heschl
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A comparison of feedback cues for enhancing pointing efficiency in interaction with spatial audio displays [PDF]
, 2005 An empirical study that compared six different feedback cue types to enhance pointing efficiency in deictic spatial audio displays is presented. Participants were asked to select a sound using a physical pointing gesture, with the help of a loudness cue,
Brewster, S.A. +3 more
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Ontogenetic Origins of Infant Pointing
, 2021 Human pointing is foundational to language acquisition and sociality. The current chapter explores the ontogenetic origins of the human pointing gesture in infancy.
Ulf Liszkowski, Johanna Nuria Rüther
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Ten Years of VIIRS On-Orbit Geolocation Calibration and Performance
Remote Sensing, 2022 The first innovative Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) sensor aboard the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (SNPP) satellite has been in operation for 10 years since its launch on 28 October 2011. The second VIIRS sensor aboard the
Guoqing Lin +4 more
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The many meanings of a gestural motif [PDF]
Journal of Art Historiography, 2021 In an insightful 1887 essay, the Danish art historian Julius Lange explored the many meanings of a common but overlooked gesture—that of bringing a hand to one’s chest.
Kensy Cooperrider
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Ovariectomy Impairs Socio-Cognitive Functions in Dogs
Animals, 2019 Recent studies have underlined the effect of ovariectomy on the spatial cognition of female dogs, with ovariectomized dogs showing a clear preference for an egocentric rather than an allocentric navigation strategy whereas intact females did not show ...
Anna Scandurra +4 more
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Production and comprehension of gestures between orang-utans (Pongo pygmaeus) in a referential communication game [PDF]
, 2015 Orang-utans played a communication game in two studies testing their ability to produce and comprehend requestive pointing. While the 'communicator' could see but not obtain hidden food, the 'donor' could release the food to the communicator, but could ...
Josep Call +15 more
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