Effect of shared information and owner behavior on showing in dogs (Canis familiaris).

ABSTRACT: Dogs' production of referential communicative signals, i.e., showing, has gained increasing scientific interest over the last years. In this paper, we investigate whether shared information about the present and the past affects success and form of dog-human interactions. Second, in the context of showing, owners have always been treated as passive receivers of the dog's signals. Therefore, we examined whether the owner's behavior can influence the success and form of their dog's showing behavior. To address these questions, we employed a hidden-object task with knowledgeable dogs and naïve owners. Shared information about the present was varied via the spatial set-up, i.e., position of hiding places, within dog-owner pairs, with two conditions requiring either high or low precision in ind

SUBMITTER: Henschel M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7415761 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature