What’s the point? Domestic dogs’ sensitivity to the accuracy of human informants

Madeline H. Pelgrim*, Julia Espinosa, Emma C. Tecwyn, Sarah Mac Kay Marton, Angie Johnston, Daphna Buchsbaum

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    16 Citations (SciVal)
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)281-297
    Number of pages17
    JournalAnimal Cognition
    Volume24
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished (VoR) - Mar 2021

    Funding

    Thanks to University College at the University of Toronto for providing our testing space. Thanks to the members of the U of T Canine Cognition Lab for their assistance with data collection. We also thank the dogs and their humans for their participation in the project. This research was funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada [Grant Number 05552, 2016].

    Keywords

    • Canine cognition
    • Comparative cognition
    • Social Learning
    • Social cognition

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