Jun 18, 2018 06:25 PM
(This post was last modified: Jun 18, 2018 07:58 PM by C C.)
19 Gestures Reveal What Your Dog Is Trying To Say To You (K9 hobbies)
http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-ani...study/all/
EXCERPT: . . . The researchers – Dr Hannah Worsley and Dr Sean O’Hara from the University of Salford – are known for their work on dog-human communication. Their latest work is arguably the most groundbreaking: it reveals that our floofy companions can deploy 19 specific actions in order to let us know what they want.
[...] In order to close this informational gap, 37 different male and female dogs were observed in their own homes using video recording equipment. Of a total of 47 potential referential gesture events, statistical analysis revealed that 19 of them were frequently used during everyday communicative attempts with humans. All of these conform to the “five features of referentiality”: they are directed towards a specific thing, they are aimed at a recipient, they receive a voluntary response, they have no mechanical use, and they have the hallmarks of intent.
Here’s what they are, categorized by what they can potentially mean when intentionally performed. Some are more certain than others, so click here to see the table in full....
MORE: http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-ani...study/all/
ORIGINAL PAPER: https://link.springer.com/article/10.100...018-1181-3
Success is not just how you play your cards, but how you play your opponents (games)
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20...154511.htm
EXCERPT: Looking at how more than 35,000 individuals interacted when playing millions of poker hands online during a three-week period, a University of California, Davis, study published today reveals that game experts are an excellent source of insight into how people process strategic information in competitive settings. Seth Frey, an assistant professor of communication at UC Davis, said poker experts "pull their informational advantage not from their own cards, and not from their opponents' signals, but specifically from how those two information sources interact. As long as their cards are private, their behavior is encrypted: an opponent can't reconstruct their reasoning without access to both sources of information."
MORE: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20...154511.htm
http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-ani...study/all/
EXCERPT: . . . The researchers – Dr Hannah Worsley and Dr Sean O’Hara from the University of Salford – are known for their work on dog-human communication. Their latest work is arguably the most groundbreaking: it reveals that our floofy companions can deploy 19 specific actions in order to let us know what they want.
[...] In order to close this informational gap, 37 different male and female dogs were observed in their own homes using video recording equipment. Of a total of 47 potential referential gesture events, statistical analysis revealed that 19 of them were frequently used during everyday communicative attempts with humans. All of these conform to the “five features of referentiality”: they are directed towards a specific thing, they are aimed at a recipient, they receive a voluntary response, they have no mechanical use, and they have the hallmarks of intent.
Here’s what they are, categorized by what they can potentially mean when intentionally performed. Some are more certain than others, so click here to see the table in full....
MORE: http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-ani...study/all/
ORIGINAL PAPER: https://link.springer.com/article/10.100...018-1181-3
Success is not just how you play your cards, but how you play your opponents (games)
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20...154511.htm
EXCERPT: Looking at how more than 35,000 individuals interacted when playing millions of poker hands online during a three-week period, a University of California, Davis, study published today reveals that game experts are an excellent source of insight into how people process strategic information in competitive settings. Seth Frey, an assistant professor of communication at UC Davis, said poker experts "pull their informational advantage not from their own cards, and not from their opponents' signals, but specifically from how those two information sources interact. As long as their cards are private, their behavior is encrypted: an opponent can't reconstruct their reasoning without access to both sources of information."
MORE: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20...154511.htm