Going back to “basics”: Harlow’s learning set task with wolves and dogs

• Published in: Learning & behavior Vol. 52; no. 4; pp. 315 - 329
• Main Authors: Rivas-Blanco, Dániel, Monteiro, Tiago, Virányi, Zsófia, Range, Friederike
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.12.2024; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Animals; Association Learning - physiology; Behavioral Science and Psychology; Canidae; Cognition & reasoning; Cognitive ability; Dogs; Domestic animals; Domestication; Female; Go/no-go discrimination learning; Learning; Learning set; Male; Neurosciences; Psychology; Reinforcement; Reward; Serial Learning - physiology; Species Specificity; Wolves; Wolves; Learning set; Serial learning; Reversal learning; Dogs; Domestication; Associative learning

To survive and reproduce, animals need to behave adaptively by adjusting their behavior to their environment, with learning facilitating some of these processes. Dogs have become a go-to model species in comparative cognition studies, making our understanding of their learning skills paramount at mu...