Communication involves a wide range of behaviours that animals emit in their daily lives
and can take place between different species, as is the case of domestic dogs (Canis
familiaris) and humans. Dogs have shown to be successful at following human cues to solve
the object choice task. The question is what are the mechanisms involved in these
communicative abilities. This article presents a review of studies about the communicative
capacities of domestic dogs emphasizing the ones that considered the effect of associative …