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In this paper, I propose to describe one part of a research program concerning the processes through which animals gain knowledge of space. The behavioral adaptation of dogs to relatively unconstrained spatial learning tasks was studied in order to find out what animals’ actions can reflect about the type of knowledge they are able to acquire concerning their surroundings. Before describing any dogs’ results it is necessary to make some remarks about the principal characteristics of these experiments.
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Fabrigoule, C. (1987). Study of Cognitive Processes Used by Dogs in Spatial Tasks. In: Ellen, P., Thinus-Blanc, C. (eds) Cognitive Processes and Spatial Orientation in Animal and Man. NATO ASI Series, vol 36. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3531-0_9
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