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Response to Comments on “Differential Sensitivity to Human Communication in Dogs, Wolves, and Human Infants”
Author(s) -
József Topál,
Ádám Miklósi,
Zsófia Sümegi,
Anna Kis
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 12.556
H-Index - 1186
eISSN - 1095-9203
pISSN - 0036-8075
DOI - 10.1126/science.1184152
Subject(s) - object (grammar) , psychology , sensitivity (control systems) , object permanence , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , cognitive science , cognition , neuroscience , computer science , artificial intelligence , cognitive development , electronic engineering , engineering
The comments by Fiset and Marshall-Pescini et al. raise important methodological issues and propose alternative accounts for our finding of perseverative search errors in dogs. Not denying that attentional processes and local enhancement are involved in such object search tasks, we provide here new evidence and argue that dogs’ behavior is affected by a combination of factors, including specific susceptibility to human communicative signals

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