on neophilia:
Kaulfuss, P., and D. S. Mills. 2008. Neophilia in domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) and its implication for studies of dog cognition. and its implication for studies of dog cognition. Animal Cognition, 11, Animal Cognition, 11, 553556. 553556.
on physical cognition:
Miklosi, 2007.
on string-pulling:
Osthaus, B., S. E. G. Lea, and A. M. Slater. 2005. Dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) fail to show understanding of means-end connections in a string-pulling task. fail to show understanding of means-end connections in a string-pulling task. Animal Animal Cognition, 8, Cognition, 8, 3747. 3747.
on use of social cues:
Erdohegyi, A., J. Topal, Zs. Viranyi, and a. Miklosi. 2007. Dog-logic: Inferential reasoning in a two-way choice task and its restricted use. Animal Behavior, 74, Animal Behavior, 74, 725737. 725737.
on dogs looking to humans to solve task:
Miklosi et al., 2003.
on milk-bottle t.i.ts:
Fisher, J., and R. A. Hinde. 1949. The opening of milk bottles by birds. British British Birds, 42, Birds, 42, 347357. 347357.
on chickadees experiment:
Sherry, D. F., and B. G. Galef Jr. 1990. Social learning without imitation: More about milk bottle opening by birds. Animal Behaviour, 40, Animal Behaviour, 40, 987989. 987989.
on detour learning:
Pongracz, P., a. Miklosi, K. Timar-Geng, and V. Csanyi. 2004. Verbal attention getting as a key factor in social learning between dog (Canis familiaris) and human. and human. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 118, Journal of Comparative Psychology, 118, 375383. 375383.
on infant imitation: Gergely, G., H. Bekkering, and I. Kiraly. 2002. Rational imitation in preverbal infants. Nature, 415, Nature, 415, 755. 755.
Whiten, A., D. M. Custance, J-C. Gomez, P. Teixidor, and K. A. Bard. 1996. Imitative learning of artificial fruit processing in children (h.o.m.o sapiens) and chimpanzees ( and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 110, Journal of Comparative Psychology, 110, 314. 314.
on dog imitation:
Range, F., Zs. Viranyi, and L. Huber. 2007. Selective imitation in domestic dogs. Current Biology, 17, Current Biology, 17, 868872. 868872.
on "do it" task:
Topal, J., R. W. Byrne, a. Miklosi, and V. Csanyi. 2006. Reproducing human actions and action sequences: "Do as I Do!" in a dog. Animal Cognition, 9, Animal Cognition, 9, 355367. 355367.
on theory of mind:
Premack, D., and G. Woodruff. 1978. Does a chimpanzee have a theory of mind? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1, 515526. 515526.
on false belief test:
Wimmer, H., and J. Perner. 1983. Beliefs about beliefs: Representation and constraining function of wrong beliefs in young children"s understanding of deception. Cognition, 13, Cognition, 13, 103128. 103128.
on Philip, the dog who informs about the keys:
Topal, J., A. Erdhegyi, R. Manyik, and a. Miklosi. 2006. Mindreading in a dog: An adaptation of a primate "mental attribution" study. International Journal of International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy, 6, Psychology and Psychological Therapy, 6, 365379. 365379.
on the function of play:
Bekoff, M., and J. Byers, eds. 1998. Animal play: Evolutionary, comparative, and Animal play: Evolutionary, comparative, and ecological perspectives. ecological perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
f.a.gen, R. 1981. Animal play behavior. Animal play behavior. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
on play-fighting not improving later fighting skills:
Martin, P., and T. M. Caro. 1985. On the functions of play and its role in behavioral development. Advances in the Study of Behavior, 15, Advances in the Study of Behavior, 15, 59103. 59103.
more on dogs" use of attention, attention-getters, and communication in play:
Horowitz, 2009.
on play signals:
Bekoff, M. 1972. The development of social interaction, play, and meta-communication in mammals: An ethological perspective. Quarterly Review Quarterly Review of Biology, 47, of Biology, 47, 412434. 412434.
Bekoff, M. 1995. Play signals as punctuation: The structure of social play in canids. Behaviour, 132, Behaviour, 132, 419429. 419429.
Horowitz, 2009.
on the (un)fairness experiment: