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Novel approach to study the perception of animacy in dogs
Humans tend to perceive inanimate objects as animate based on simple motion cues. So far this perceptual bias has been studied mostly in humans by utilizing two-dimensional video and interactive displays. Considering its importance for survival, the perception of animacy is probably also widespread...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5417633/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28472117 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0177010 |
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author | Abdai, Judit Baño Terencio, Cristina Miklósi, Ádám |
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description | Humans tend to perceive inanimate objects as animate based on simple motion cues. So far this perceptual bias has been studied mostly in humans by utilizing two-dimensional video and interactive displays. Considering its importance for survival, the perception of animacy is probably also widespread among animals, however two-dimensional displays are not necessarily the best approach to study the phenomenon in non-human species. Here we applied a novel method to study whether dogs recognize a dependent (chasing-like) movement pattern performed by inanimate agents in live demonstration. We found that dogs showed more interest toward the agents that demonstrated the chasing-like motion, compared to those that were involved in the independent movement. We suggest that dogs spontaneously recognized the chasing-like pattern and thus they may have considered the interacting partners as animate agents. This methodological approach may be useful to test perceptual animacy in other non-human species. |
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spelling | pubmed-54176332017-05-14 Novel approach to study the perception of animacy in dogs Abdai, Judit Baño Terencio, Cristina Miklósi, Ádám PLoS One Research Article Humans tend to perceive inanimate objects as animate based on simple motion cues. So far this perceptual bias has been studied mostly in humans by utilizing two-dimensional video and interactive displays. Considering its importance for survival, the perception of animacy is probably also widespread among animals, however two-dimensional displays are not necessarily the best approach to study the phenomenon in non-human species. Here we applied a novel method to study whether dogs recognize a dependent (chasing-like) movement pattern performed by inanimate agents in live demonstration. We found that dogs showed more interest toward the agents that demonstrated the chasing-like motion, compared to those that were involved in the independent movement. We suggest that dogs spontaneously recognized the chasing-like pattern and thus they may have considered the interacting partners as animate agents. This methodological approach may be useful to test perceptual animacy in other non-human species. Public Library of Science 2017-05-04 /pmc/articles/PMC5417633/ /pubmed/28472117 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0177010 Text en © 2017 Abdai et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Abdai, Judit Baño Terencio, Cristina Miklósi, Ádám Novel approach to study the perception of animacy in dogs |
title | Novel approach to study the perception of animacy in dogs |
title_full | Novel approach to study the perception of animacy in dogs |
title_fullStr | Novel approach to study the perception of animacy in dogs |
title_full_unstemmed | Novel approach to study the perception of animacy in dogs |
title_short | Novel approach to study the perception of animacy in dogs |
title_sort | novel approach to study the perception of animacy in dogs |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5417633/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28472117 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0177010 |
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