Domestic dogs use contextual information and tone of voice when following a human pointing gesture.

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 in the context in which food has been found pre...

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Main Authors: Linda Scheider, Susanne Grassmann, Juliane Kaminski, Michael Tomasello
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/21765904/?tool=EBI