caa a22 4500 605542708 CHVBK 20210128100923.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10071-014-0816-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10071-014-0816-2 Do dogs follow behavioral cues from an unreliable human? [Elektronische Daten] [Akiko Takaoka, Tomomi Maeda, Yusuke Hori, Kazuo Fujita] Dogs are known to consistently follow human pointing gestures. In this study, we asked whether dogs "automatically” do this or whether they flexibly adjust their behavior depending upon the reliability of the pointer, demonstrated in an immediately preceding event. We tested pet dogs in a version of the object choice task in which a piece of food was hidden in one of the two containers. In Experiment 1, Phase 1, an experimenter pointed at the baited container; the second container was empty. In Phase 2, after showing the contents of both containers to the dogs, the experimenter pointed at the empty container. In Phase 3, the procedure was exactly as in Phase 1. We compared the dogs' responses to the experimenter's pointing gestures in Phases 1 and 3. Most dogs followed pointing in Phase 1, but many fewer did so in Phase 3. In Experiment 2, dogs followed a new experimenter's pointing in Phase 3 following replication of procedures of Phases 1 and 2 in Experiment 1. This ruled out the possibility that dogs simply lost motivation to participate in the task in later phases. These results suggest that not only dogs are highly skilled at understanding human pointing gestures, but also they make inferences about the reliability of a human who presents cues and consequently modify their behavior flexibly depending on the inference. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2014 Dog nationallicence Dog-human interaction nationallicence Selective trust nationallicence Pointing nationallicence Object choice task nationallicence Takaoka Akiko Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Sakyo, 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan aut Maeda Tomomi Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Sakyo, 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan aut Hori Yusuke Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Sakyo, 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan aut Fujita Kazuo Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Sakyo, 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan aut Animal Cognition Springer Berlin Heidelberg 18/2(2015-03-01), 475-483 1435-9448 18:2<475 2015 18 10071 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-014-0816-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-014-0816-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Takaoka Akiko Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Sakyo, 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Maeda Tomomi Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Sakyo, 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hori Yusuke Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Sakyo, 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fujita Kazuo Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Sakyo, 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Animal Cognition Springer Berlin Heidelberg 18/2(2015-03-01), 475-483 1435-9448 18:2<475 2015 18 10071