Simple Summary Dogs have an extraordinary olfactory capability, which far exceeds that of
humans. Dogs' sense of smell seems to be the main sense, allowing them to not only gather …

Gaze is an important component of social interaction. The function, evolution and
neurobiology of gaze processing are therefore of interest to a number of researchers. This …

Is children's language acquisition based on innate linguistic structures or built from cognitive
and communicative skills? This book summarises the major theoretical debates in all of the …

Do the gestures that speakers produce while talking significantly benefit listeners'
comprehension of the message? This question has been the topic of many research studies …

The Recursive Mind challenges the commonly held notion that language is what makes us
uniquely human. In this compelling book, Michael Corballis argues that what distinguishes …

Dogs are more skillful than great apes at a number of tasks in which they must read human
communicative signals indicating the location of hidden food. In this study, we found that …

It is often said that speech is what distinguishes us from other animals. But are we all talk?
What if language was bequeathed to us not by word of mouth, but as a hand-me-down?The …

Domestic dogs are unusually skilled at reading human social and communicative behavior–
even more so than our nearest primate relatives. For example, they use human social and …

We conducted three experiments on social problem solving by chimpanzees, Pan
troglodytes. In each experiment a subordinate and a dominant individual competed for food …

This is the first book to collate and synthesize the recent burgeoning primary research
literature on dog behaviour, evolution, and cognition. The author presents a new ecological …