Chasing perception in domestic cats and dogs.
Animacy perception
Cat
Chasing
Comparative perception
Dog
Journal
Animal cognition
ISSN: 1435-9456
Titre abrégé: Anim Cogn
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 9814573
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Dec 2022
Dec 2022
Historique:
received:
24
12
2021
accepted:
01
06
2022
revised:
25
05
2022
pubmed:
4
7
2022
medline:
16
11
2022
entrez:
3
7
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Chasing motion is often used to study the perception of inanimate objects as animate. When chasing interaction and independent motions between two agents are displayed simultaneously on a screen, we expect observers to quickly perceive and recognise the chasing pattern (because of its familiarity) and turn their attention to the independent motion (novelty effect). In case of isosceles triangles as moving figures, dogs and humans both display this behaviour, but dogs initially preferred to look at the chasing pattern whereas humans started to increase their gaze towards the independent motion earlier. Here, we compared whether family cats perceive moving inanimate objects as animate and whether their looking behaviour is similar to that of small family dogs. We displayed a chasing and independent motion side by side on a screen in two consecutive trials and assessed subjects' looking behaviour towards the motions. Similarly to previous studies, we found that dogs eventually looked longer at the independent motion, but cats preferred to look at the independent motion at the beginning of the video display and only later shifted their attention to the chasing motion. No difference was found in the frequency of gaze alternation of the two species. Thus, although cats discriminate between the chasing and independent motions, it is not clear whether this discrimination is controlled by animate motion cues. The difference may originate from their ecological situation and/or may be explained by specific perceptual mechanisms.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35780462
doi: 10.1007/s10071-022-01643-3
pii: 10.1007/s10071-022-01643-3
pmc: PMC9652223
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1589-1597Subventions
Organisme : Office for Supported Research Groups
ID : MTA 01 031
Organisme : Nemzeti Kutatási, Fejlesztési és Innovaciós Alap
ID : TKP2020- IKA-05
Informations de copyright
© 2022. The Author(s).
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