Diferente sensibilidad a la comunicación humana en perros, lobos y bebés humanos

József Topál1, György Gergely, Agnes Erdohegyi

  • 1Research Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1132 Budapest, Hungary. topaljozsef@gmail.com

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|September 5, 2009
PubMed
Resumen

Los bebés y los perros cometen más errores de búsqueda de objetos cuando los experimentadores usan señales comunicativas. Esto sugiere que la sensibilidad compartida a la comunicación humana evolucionó convergentemente en los géneros Homo y Canis.

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