Sentence examples for human communicative from inspiring English sources

Téglás, E., Gergely, A., Kupán, K., Miklósi, Á. & Topál, J. Dogs' gaze following is tuned to human communicative signals.

Breed differences in domestic dogs' (Canis familiaris) comprehension of human communicative signals.

The birds were also able to use several human communicative movements — shifting the gaze from one spot to another, and finger-pointing — to find hidden food.

To test this hypothesis, different breeds of domestic dogs were compared for their ability to use various human communicative behaviors to find hidden food.

When dogs were developed from wolves, selection against fear and aggression "may have been sufficient to produce the unusual ability of dogs to use human communicative gestures," Dr. Hare wrote last year in the journal Current Biology.

In addition to providing a platform for evaluating theories of human communicative behavior, these agents can be used in applications from virtual salespeople and support personnel to virtual playmates for children.

Disagreements between the approaches might be due to the perceived significance of non-human communicative capacities and their relation to uniquely human ones.

Kaminski et al. (2012) showed that dogs follow a human's communicative gestures (e.g. pointing or gazing) but ignore a human's actions which resembled the communicative gestures but are not intended to be communicative and during which the humans eyes were not directed at the dog16.

Isserlis sees them as "fascinating and enigmatic" pieces but also – that old Bach conundrum – "very human and communicative" too.

The theoretical framework for the program integrates aspects of human capability, communicative action, social ecology and social cognition.

Further, "working" dogs (shepherds and huskies: thought to be bred intentionally to respond to human cooperative communicative signals) were more skilled at using gestural cues than were non-working breeds (basenji and toy poodles: not thought to have been bred for their cooperative-communicative ability).