Response to comments on "Differential Sensitivity to Human Communication in Dogs, Wolves, and Human Infants."

Topál, József and Miklósi, Ádám and Sümegi, Zsófia and Kis, Anna (2010) Response to comments on "Differential Sensitivity to Human Communication in Dogs, Wolves, and Human Infants.". Science, 329 (5988). p. 142. ISSN 0036-8075 (print) 1095-9203 (online)

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Abstract

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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