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Word Generalization by a Dog (Canis familiaris): Is Shape Important?

We investigated the presence of a key feature of human word comprehension in a five year old Border Collie: the generalization of a word referring to an object to other objects of the same shape, also known as shape bias. Our first experiment confirmed a solid history of word learning in the dog, th...

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Autores principales: van der Zee, Emile, Zulch, Helen, Mills, Daniel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3504025/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23185321
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0049382