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Cross modal perception of body size in domestic dogs (Canis familiaris)

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posted on 2023-06-07, 18:23 authored by Anna M Taylor, David Reby, Karen McComb
While the perception of size-related acoustic variation in animal vocalisations is well documented, little attention has been given to how this information might be integrated with corresponding visual information. Using a cross-modal design, we tested the ability of domestic dogs to match growls resynthesised to be typical of either a large or a small dog to size- matched models. Subjects looked at the size-matched model significantly more often and for a significantly longer duration than at the incorrect model, showing that they have the ability to relate information about body size from the acoustic domain to the appropriate visual category. Our study suggests that the perceptual and cognitive mechanisms at the basis of size assessment in mammals have a multisensory nature, and calls for further investigations of the multimodal processing of size information across animal species.

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PLoS ONE

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1932-6203

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Public Library of Science

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2

Volume

6

Article number

e17069

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  • Psychology Publications

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2012-02-06

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2016-03-22

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2016-11-10

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