Over the last two decades increasing evidence for an acute sensitivity to human gestures
and attentional states in domestic dogs has led to a burgeoning of research into the social …

Simple Summary Communication takes place between members of the same species, as
well as between heterospecific individuals, such as the long co-habitation process and inter …

In recent years evidence has accumulated demonstrating that dogs are, to a degree, skilful
in using human forms of communication, making them stand out in the animal kingdom …

Driven by both applied and theoretical goals, scientific interest in canine cognition has
experienced a rapid surge in popularity, especially over the last 15 years. Here we provide …

Social referencing is a process whereby an individual uses the emotional information
provided by an informant about a novel object/stimulus to guide his/her own future …

Prior studies have documented the domestic dog's (Canis lupus familiaris) sensitivity to
human attentional state, including a tendency to preferentially beg for food from attentive …

A decade of research on domestic dogs' responsiveness to human actions has led some to
believe that all members of the species Canis familiaris possess a human-like social …

The past 30 years have witnessed a continued and growing interest in the production and
comprehension of manual pointing gestures in nonhuman animals. Captive primates with …

There is increasing scientific agreement that domestication has led to the adaptive
specialisation of dogs in the human environment, and this evolutionary process has greatly …

Dogs have been shown to use human-directed gazing behaviour and gaze alternation in
numerous contexts; however, it is still unclear whether this behaviour can be considered an …