Sheldon, Elizabeth L., Hart, Carla J., Mills, Daniel S. , Soulsbury, Carl D., Sumner, Rebecca and Wilkinson, Anna (2023) The impact of auditory distraction on learning and task performance in working dogs. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 265 . p. 105977. ISSN 0168-1591
Full content URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2023.105977
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Abstract
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• Dogs trained in distracting environments learn tasks less efficiently than dogs trained in silence.
• Dogs do not tend to generalize their ability to ignore learned distractors to novel distractors.
• During the initial stages of learning, training should be conducted in a non-distracting environment.
| Keywords: | working dogs, distractors, auditory, visual, Canis familiaris |
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| Subjects: | C Biological Sciences > C120 Behavioural Biology D Veterinary Sciences, Agriculture and related subjects > D328 Animal Welfare |
| Divisions: | College of Science > School of Life and Environmental Sciences > Department of Life Sciences |
| ID Code: | 54949 |
| Deposited On: | 09 Jun 2023 14:57 |
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