著者
高岡 祥子
出版者
日本動物心理学会
雑誌
動物心理学研究 (ISSN:09168419)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.59, no.1, pp.15-23, 2009 (Released:2009-07-28)
参考文献数
46
被引用文献数
1 1

Recent researches have shown that dogs (Canis familiaris) possess a number of social cognitive abilities and communicate with humans in unique ways. Several researches suggest that dogs do not only use the overt features of humans (e.g., pointing, gaze) to find a hidden food in an object choice task, but also recognize the covert aspects of humans (e.g., knowledge) to predict the actions of them. This paper reviews evidence showing such excellent social cognition in dogs. Several comparisons between wolves and dogs suggest that human-like social skills by dogs have evolved as a by-product of domestication. Besides, some researchers argue the possibility of acquisition of similar social skills between dogs and humans through convergent cognitive evolution, which enabled them to communicate. The study of social cognitive skills in dogs will broaden our understanding of comparative social cognition.
著者
高岡 祥子 森崎 礼子 藤田 和生
出版者
THE JAPANESE SOCIETY FOR ANIMAL PSYCHOLOGY
雑誌
動物心理学研究 (ISSN:09168419)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.63, no.2, pp.123-130, 2013 (Released:2013-12-17)
参考文献数
27
被引用文献数
3 3

Previous studies suggest that nonhuman animals form concepts that integrate information from multiple sensory modalities such as vision and audition. For instance, Adachi, Kuwahata, and Fujita (2007) demonstrated that dogs form auditory-visual cross-modal representation of their owner. However, whether such multi-modal concepts would expand to more abstract, or collective, ones remains unknown. To answer the question, we tested whether dogs were sensitive to congruence of human genders suggested by the voice and the face of an unfamiliar person. We showed to the dogs a photograph of a male or female human face on the monitor after playing a voice of a person either matching or mismatching in gender. Dogs looked at the photograph for longer duration when the auditory stimuli were incongruent than when they were congruent; that is, expectancy violation was suggested. This result suggests that dogs spontaneously associate auditory and visual information to form a cross-modal concept of human gender. This is the first report showing that cross-modal representation in nonhuman animals expands to an abstract social category.
著者
高岡 祥子
出版者
日本動物心理学会
雑誌
動物心理学研究 (ISSN:09168419)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.0907110054, (Released:2009-07-17)
参考文献数
46
被引用文献数
1 1

Recent researches have shown that dogs (Canis familiaris) possess a number of social cognitive abilities and communicate with humans in unique ways. Several researches suggest that dogs do not only use the overt features of humans (e.g., pointing, gaze) to find a hidden food in an object choice task, but also recognize the covert aspects of humans (e.g., knowledge) to predict the actions of them. This paper reviews evidence showing such excellent social cognition in dogs. Several comparisons between wolves and dogs suggest that human-like social skills by dogs have evolved as a by-product of domestication. Besides, some researchers argue the possibility of acquisition of similar social skills between dogs and humans through convergent cognitive evolution, which enabled them to communicate. The study of social cognitive skills in dogs will broaden our understanding of comparative social cognition.