Auditory–Visual Matching of Conspecifics and Non-Conspecifics by Dogs and Human Infants
2019
Anna Gergely | Eszter Petró | Katalin Oláh | József Topál
We tested whether dogs and 14&ndash:16-month-old infants are able to integrate intersensory information when presented with conspecific and heterospecific faces and vocalisations. The looking behaviour of dogs and infants was recorded with a non-invasive eye-tracking technique while they were concurrently presented with a dog and a female human portrait accompanied with acoustic stimuli of female human speech and a dog&rsquo:s bark. Dogs showed evidence of both con- and heterospecific intermodal matching, while infants&rsquo: looking preferences indicated effective auditory&ndash:visual matching only when presented with the audio and visual stimuli of the non-conspecifics. The results of the present study provided further evidence that domestic dogs and human infants have similar socio-cognitive skills and highlighted the importance of comparative examinations on intermodal perception.
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