What factors really influence domestic dogs' (Canis familiaris) search for an item dropped down a diagonal tube? The tubes task revisited

  • Emma C. Tecwyn*
  • , Daphna Buchsbaum
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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    7 Citations (Scopus)
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)4-19
    Number of pages16
    JournalJournal of Comparative Psychology
    Volume133
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished (VoR) - 1 Feb 2019

    Funding

    We thank Stephen Lea and an additional anonymous reviewer for their helpful feedback and comments. Thanks to University College at the University of Toronto for providing our main testing space, as well as All About Dogs, When Hounds Fly, and Good As Gold K9 School for allowing us to use their facilities and helping to recruit participants. Several members of the U of T Canine Cognition Lab assisted with data collection: Sam Clark, Nina Esmail, Julia Espinosa, Aarushi Gupta, Sarah Marton-MacKay, Pingki Mazumder, Amanda Nickerson, and Madeline Pelgrim. Madeline Pelgrim also performed the secondary coding of the data. Thanks to Dan Goldwater for lending tools and Paul Coleman for help building the apparatus. We acknowledge the support of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada [2016–05552] and the Canada Foundation for Innovation.

    Keywords

    • Comparative cognition
    • Domestic dog
    • Gravity bias
    • Physical reasoning
    • Tubes task

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