Kiemelt bejegyzés

Többé nem frissülő blog

Ez a blog többé nem frissül. Az új cikkek új helyen, a molnarcsaba.wordpress.com címen érhetők el.

2013. március 1.

Molnár et al, 2010, Q J Exp Psychol

Seeing with ears: Sightless humans' perception of dog bark provides a test for structural rules in vocal communication

Molnár Cs, Pongrácz P & Miklósi Á
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2010, 63, 1004-1013

Prerecorded family dog (Canis familiaris) barks were played back to groups of congenitally sightless, sightless with prior visual experience, and sighted people (none of whom had ever owned a dog). We found that blind people without any previous canine visual experiences can categorize accurately various dog barks recorded in different contexts, and their results are very close to those of sighted people in characterizing the emotional content of barks. These findings suggest that humans can recognize some of the most important motivational states reflecting, for example, fear or aggression in a dog's bark without any visual experience. It is very likely that this result can be generalized to other mammalian species - that is, no visual experience of another individual is needed for recognizing some of the most important motivational states of the caller.

Download paper / A teljes cikk: PDF
Papers citing this article / E tanulmányra hivatkozó más cikkek: Google Scholar

Seeing with ears: Sightless humans' perception of dog bark provides a test for structural rules in vocal co... by Molnár Csaba / Csaba Molnar