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Referential and attentional accounts of dog point-following in an asymmetric multi-cup design

2026-05-08

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Human pointing is often used to test whether dogs extract object-specific information from human communicative cues. However, above-chance responses in standard object-choice tasks do not by themselves distinguish between a referential interpretation, in which the gesture identifies a specific target, and an attentional interpretation, in which it primarily biases behaviour toward a broader spatial region. We addr...

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Literature Corpus work: 77b3ff1a-cb20-50fc-ae67-19f5fbfb13a8
DOI: 10.64898/2026.05.05.722884

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