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Dogs Imitate Novel Human Actions And Store Them In Memory

July 18, 2013 by

Dogs can learn, retain and replay actions taught by humans after a short delay. According to a new study by Claudia Fugazza and Adam Miklosi, from Eotvos Lorand University in Hungary, this deferred imitation provides the first evidence of dogs' cognitive ability to both encode and recall actions. The research is published in Springer's journal Animal Cognition...

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