The cocktail party effect in the domestic dog (Canis familiaris)

Mallikarjun, Amritha; Shroads, Emily; Newman, Rochelle S.

doi:10.1007/s10071-019-01255-4

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“…Pongrácz et al 2001), including various instances of imitation where in some specific cases we have convincing evidence for imitating novel actions through episodic memory as well (Fugazza et al 2016). Dogs not only have a given identity, but they are also able to recognize their own names, even amidst distracting verbal background noise (Mallikarjun et al 2019). Dogs are sensitive to the attentional states of humans (Gácsi et al 2004) and they also readily follow various visual referential cues (e.g.…”

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That dog won’t fit: body size awareness in dogs

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With very few exceptions, no coherent model of representing the self exists for nonhuman species. According to our hypothesis, understanding of the Self as an object' can also be found in a wide range of animals including the dog, a fast-moving terrestrial predator/scavenger, with highly developed senses and complex cognitive capacity. We tested companion dogs in three experiments in which they faced three different variations of the same physical challenge: passing through an opening in a wall. We predicted that if dogs are capable of representing their own body size, they will react differently when faced with adequate or too small openings. We found that dogs started to move towards and approached the too small openings with significantly longer latencies than the suitable ones; and upon reaching it, they did not try to get through the too small openings. In another experiment, the medium-size (still large enough) opening was approached with latencies that fell between the latencies measured in the cases of the very large or the too small openings. Having discussed the potential underlying mechanisms, we concluded that our results convincingly assume that dogs can represent their own body size in novel contexts.

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“…Moreover, pet dogs have been shown to learn properties of their most-often-heard, or "native", language. Studies from our lab have shown that dogs can differentiate their "native" language from unfamiliar languages that differ in rhythm and phonology, indicating that they have some awareness of the underlying features of their "native" language (see Mallikarjun et al 2019a). This, too, suggests that dogs may have the linguistic exposure necessary to demonstrate a consonant bias.…”

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“…Very young infants tend to show a vowel bias (Bouchon et al 2015;Hochmann et al 2018), suggesting that the consonant bias emerges either with experience or maturation. The vowel bias makes sense logically as a starting point: vowels are typically longer and louder than consonants (Ladefoged 2001), and thus are more acoustically salient for infants (Mehler et al 1996). An alteration to a vowel should then be more noticeable perceptually for infants, all other things being equal.…”

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“…The domestic dog has been an important model species for comparative work in recent years, including in studies of human speech perception (Andics et al 2014;Mallikarjun et al 2019b). Through domestication, they have been selected across thousands of years to be attentive to human communicative behaviors (Hare, Brown et al 2002); these include gaze, pointing gestures, and speech (Hare et al 2010;Horowitz 2009;Miklösi et al 1998).…”

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“…In one study of the consonant bias in young infants using HPP as a method, infants' preferences were compared across two types of stimuli: their own name, and either a version of their name with the initial consonant in the stressed syllable mispronounced, or a version of their name with the vowel in the stressed syllable mispronounced (Bouchon et al 2015). This same HPP approach has been used to demonstrate dogs' recognition of word forms (Mallikarjun et al 2019b); dogs were presented with their name or another dog's name as spoken by an unknown voice, and showed longer listening to their own name. In this study, dogs were presented with their own name or a mispronounced version, akin to the stimuli in Bouchon et al (2015).…”

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Consonants and vowels play different roles in speech perception: listeners rely more heavily on consonant information rather than vowel information when distinguishing between words. This reliance on consonants for word identification is the consonant bias Nespor et al. (Ling 2:203-230, 2003). Several factors modulate infants' development of the consonant bias, including fine-grained temporal processing ability and native language exposure [for review, see Nazzi et al. (Curr Direct Psychol Sci 25:291-296, 2016)]. A rat model demonstrated that mature fine-grained temporal processing alone cannot account for consonant bias emergence; linguistic exposure is also necessary Bouchon and Toro (An Cog 22:839-850, 2019). This study tested domestic dogs, who have similarly fine-grained temporal processing but more language exposure than rats, to assess whether a minimal lexicon and small degree of regular linguistic exposure can allow for consonant bias development. Dogs demonstrated a vowel bias rather than a consonant bias, preferring their own name over a vowel-mispronounced version of their name, but not in comparison to a consonant-mispronounced version. This is the pattern seen in young infants Bouchon et al.

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The cocktail party effect in the domestic dog (Canis familiaris)

Cited by 8 publications

References 33 publications

That dog won’t fit: body size awareness in dogs

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