Generalize or personalize--do dogs transfer an acquired rule to novel situations and persons?

Recent studies have raised the question of whether dogs, like human infants, comprehend an established rule as generalizable, normative knowledge or rather as episodic information, existing only in the immediate situation. In the current study we tested whether dogs disobeyed a prohibition to take a...

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Main Authors: Anne Hertel, Juliane Kaminski, Michael Tomasello
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/25029253/pdf/?tool=EBI