Dr. Marshall-Pescini

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Books

Range, F, Marshall-Pescini, S. (2022) Wolves and Dogs: Between Myth and Science (Springer)

Books

Kaminski, J, Marshall-Pescini, S. (2014) The Social Dog: behaviour and cognition (Elsevier)

Book chapters

· Wirobski, G., Lazzaroni, M., Marshall-Pescini, S., Range, F. (2023) Biological and Hormonal Approaches to the Evolution of Human-Canine Relationships Nebraska Symposium on Motivation 69, pp. 11–35

· Lazzaroni, M, Marshall-Pescini, S (2020) "Der Streuner- das fehlende bindeglied" In: 'Streuner Hunde: Von Moskaus U-Bahn-Hunden bis Indiens Underdogs Herausgeber', Ed. Kitchenham, K Komsos

· Kaminski, J, Marshall-Pescini, S (2014) “Why study dogs? The scientific investigation of mans’ best friend” In: ‘The Social Dog: cognition and behavior’ Ed. Kaminski, J, Marshall-Pescini, S, Elsevier

· Prato-Previde, E, Marshall-Pescini, S (2014) “Social Looking in the domestic dog”. In ‘Dog Behaviour and Cognition: The scientific study of Canis familiaris’ Horowitz, A. Ed. Springer.

· Hopper, L, Marshall-Pescini, S., Whiten, A (2011) “Social learning mechanisms and their implications for culture in children and chimpanzees”. In de Waal F, Ferrari P “Primate Minds”.

· Whiten, A, Horner, V. Marshall-Pescini, S. (2005) “Selective imitation in child and chimpanzee: a window in the construal of others’ actions”. In Hurley S., Chater N., editors. ‘Perspectives on imitation: from cognitive neuroscience to social science’. Boston: MIT Press

Peer-Reviewed Journals (2021-2025)

Vanderheyden, M, Chaignon, B, Car, C, Pilot, M, El Berbri, I, Marshall-Pescini, S, Range, F, Berghänel, A (2025). Cofeeding at rich clumped food patches in free-ranging dogs: social tolerance A direct observation of infanticide by a female free-ranging dog (Canis familiaris) supports the resource competition hypothesis. Ecology and Evolution (accepted)
Rivas-Blanco, D, Gonnet-dit-Revel, L, Range, R, Tebbich, S, Marshall-Pescini, S Neophilia in wolves and dogs. Animal Cognition (accepted)
Cimarelli,G, Lazzaroni, M, Car, C, El Berbri, I, Marshall-Pescini, S, Pilot, M (2025) Validating a remote saliva collection tool for genomic analyses in free-ranging dogs. Scientific Reports 15 (36315) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-19267-1
Brogi, R, Neirotti, G, Cerri, J, Lazzaroni, M, Marshall-Pescini S, Mattioli, L, Apollonio, M (2025) Wolves on the phone: Public calls reveal a rise in urban concerns as wolves recolonize human-dominated areas. Ambio DOI: 10.1007/s13280-025-02264-z
Lazzaroni, M, Cimarelli, G, Delaunay, M, Range, F, Marshall-Pescini S Object-directed behaviours and human-directed sociability are linked in free-ranging dog puppies iScience 28 (9) DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.113231
Capitain, S, Range, F, Marshall-Pescini, S (2025) Not just avoidance: dogs show subtle individual differences in reacting to human fear chemosignals. Frontiers in Veterinary Science 12, 1679991, DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2025.1679991
Rivas-Blanco, D, Krause, SD, Marshall-Pescini, S, Range, F (2025) Inference in wolves and dogs: the cup task revisted. Animal Behaviour 227, 123268, DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123268
Martvel, G, Pedretti, G, Lazebnik, T, Zamansky, A, Ouchi, Y, Monteiro, T ... Marshall-Pescini, S (2025) Does the tail show when the nose knows? Artificial intelligence outperforms human experts at predicting detection dogs finding their target through tail kinematics. Royal Society Open Science 12 (8), 250399, DOI: 10.1098/rsos.250399
Jim, HL, Belfiore, K, Martinelli, EB, Martínez, M, Range, F, Marshall-Pescini S (2025) Do dogs form reputation of humans? No effect of age after indirect and direct experience in a food-giving situation. Animal Cognition 28 (1), 1-17, DOI:10.1007/s10071-025-01967-w
Berghänel, A., Lazzaroni, M., Ferenc, M., Pilot, M., El Berbri, I., Marshall-Pescini, S., & Range, F. (2025). Cofeeding at rich clumped food patches in free-ranging dogs: social tolerance or scramble competition? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 79(4), 51.
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-025-03590-8
Capitain, S., Lamm, C., Marshall-Pescini, S., & Range, F. (2025). Uncovering the full potential of attitude measures in navigating human-wolf coexistence. Biological Conservation, 302, 110976. DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2025.110976
Capitain, S., Wirobski, G., Önsal, Ç., Pedretti, G., Bevilacqua, V., ... (2025). Differences in dogs’ and wolves’ human-directed greeting behaviour: facial expressions, body language, and the problem of human biases. Animal Cognition, 28(1), 54. DOI: 10.1007/s10071-025-01978-7
Lazzaroni, M, Brogi, R, Napolitano, V, Apollonio, M, Range, F, Marshall-Pescini S (2024) Urbanization does not affect red foxes’ interest in anthropogenic food, but increases their initial cautiousness. Current Zoology, zoae023
Pedretti, G., Canori, C., Costantini, E., ...Valsecchi, P., Marshall-Pescini, S. (2024) Intra and interspecific audience effect on domestic dogs' behavioural displays and facial expressions. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 9546
Capitain, S., Cimarelli, G., Blenkuš, U., Range, F., Marshall-Pescini, S. (2024) Street-wise dog testing: Feasibility and reliability of a behavioural test battery for free-ranging dogs in their natural habitat PLoS ONE, e0296509
Cimarelli, G, Juskaite, M, Range, F, Marshall-Pescini F (2023) Free-ranging dogs match a human’s preference in a foraging task, Current Zoology, zoad046.
Pedretti, G., Canori, C., Marshall-Pescini, S., Pavan, G., Valsecchi, P. (2023) Behavioural Analysis of Dogs’ Response to Threatening and Neutral Conspecific Video Stimuli Applied Sciences 13(16), 9254
Lazzaroni, M., Schär, J., Baxter, E., ...Marshall-Pescini, S., Dale, R. (2023) Village dogs match pet dogs in reading human facial expressions PeerJ 11, 15601
Pedretti, G., Canori, C., Biffi, E., Marshall-Pescini, S., Valsecchi, P. (2023) Appeasement function of displacement behaviours? Dogs’ behavioural displays exhibited towards threatening and neutral humans Animal Cognition, 26(3), pp. 943–952
Wirobski G., Range F., Graat E.A.M., Palme R., Deschner T., Marshall-Pescini S. (2023) Similar behavioural but different endocrine responses to conspecific interactions in hand-raised wolves and dogs IScience https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.105978
Pedretti, G., Canori, C., Marshall-Pescini, S..Pelosi, A., Valsecchi, P. (2023) Audience effect on domestic dogs’ behavioural displays and facial expressions. Scientific Reports 12(1) 9747 12,1.
Berghänel, A., Lazzaroni, M., Cimarelli, G., Marshall-Pescini, S., Range, F. (2022) Cooperation and cognition in wild canids. Current Opinion in Behavioural Sciences, 461011434646,10173, 101173
Jim, H.-L., Plohovich, M., Marshall-Pescini, S., Range, F (2022) Wolves and dogs fail to form reputations of humans after indirect and direct experience in a food-giving situation, PlosOne 17
Range, F., Marshall-Pescini, S.(2022) Taking confounding factors and life experience seriously, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 26(9), pp. 730–731
Range, F., Marshall-Pescini, S. (2022) Comparing wolves and dogs: current status and implications for human ‘self-domestication’ Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 26(4), pp. 337–349
Wirobski, G., Range, F., Schaebs, F.S. et al. Life experience rather than domestication accounts for dogs’ increased oxytocin release during social contact with humans. Sci Rep 11, 14423 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-02193922-1
Pedretti, G., Wirobski, G., Range, F., Marshall-Pescini, S, (2021) Artificially elevated oxytocin concentrations in pet dogs are associated with higher proximity-maintenance and gazing towards the owners Physiology and Behavior 10.1016/j.physbeh.2021.113451
Cimarelli, G, Marshall-Pescini, S, Range, F, Berghaenel, A, Viranyi Z (2021). Relationship quality affects social stress buffering in dogs and wolves. Animal Behaviour, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.06.008
Jim, HL; Range, F; Marshall-Pescini, S; Dale, R; Plotnik, JM (2021): Investigating Indirect and Direct Reputation Formation in Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus). Front Psychol. 2021; 11:604372. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.604372
Schaebs, FS; Wirobski, G; Marshall-Pescini, S; Range, F; Deschner, T (2021): Validation of a commercial enzyme immunoassay to assess urinary oxytocin in humans. Endocr Connect. 2021; 10(3):290-301. https://doi.org//10.1530/EC-20-0583
Wirobski, G; Range, F; Schaebs, FS; Palme, R; Deschner, T; Marshall-Pescini, S (2021): Endocrine changes related to dog domestication:Comparing urinary cortisol and oxytocin in hand-raised, pack-living dogs and wolves. Horm Behav. 2021; 128:104901. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2020.104901

Peer-Reviewed Journals (2015-2020)

· Wirobski, G, Range, F, Schaebs, FS, Palme, R, Deschner T, Marshall-Pescini S (2020) Endocrine changes related to dog domestication: Comparing urinary cortisol and oxytocin in hand-raised, pack-living dogs and wolves. Hormones and Behavior, 128, 10490. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2020.104901

· Dale, R, Marshall-Pescini, S, Range, F. (2020) What matters for cooperation? The importance of social relationship over cognition. Scientific Reports 10, 11778 https:// doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-68734-4

· McGetrick J, Brucks D, Marshall-Pescini S, Range F (2020) No evidence for a relationship between breed cooperativeness and inequity aversion in dogs. PLoS ONE 15(6): e0233067. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233067

· Lazzaroni M, Marshall-Pescini S, Manzenreiter H, Gosh S, Pribilova L, Darc, L, McGetrick J, Range F (2020) Why do dogs look back at the human in an impossible task? Looking back behaviour may be over-interpreted. Animal Cognition 23, 427–441. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-020-01345-8

· Jim, H.-L., Marshall-Pescini, S., & Range, F. (2020). Do dogs eavesdrop on human interactions in a helping situation? PLoS ONE, 15(8), e0237373. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237373

· Lazzaroni M, Range F, Backes J, Portele K, Scheck K, Marshall-Pescini S (2020) The Effect of Domestication and Experience on the Social Interaction of Dogs and Wolves With a Human Companion. Frontiers in Psychology 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00785

· Schaebs, F.S., Deschner, T., Range, F, Karl, S., Marshall-Pescini, S. (2020). Consistency and efficacy of two methods of intranasal oxytocin application in dogs. doi.org/10.1016/j.domaniend.2020.106436

· Range, F, Kassis, A., Taborsky,M., Boada, M., Marshall-Pescini, S., Wolves and dogs recruit human partners in the cooperative string-pulling task. Scientific reports 9(17591) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-53632-1

· Marshall-Pescini, S., Schaebs, F.S., Gaugg, A. Meinert, A, Deschner, T., Range, F (2019). The role of oxytocin in the dog–owner relationship. Animals 9(10),792 DOI: 10.3390/ani9100792

· Schaebs, F.S., Marshall-Pescini, S., Range, F., Deschner, T. (2019) Analytical validation of an Enzyme Immunoassay for the measurement of urinary oxytocin in dogs and wolves General and Comparative Endocrinology 281, 73. DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2019.05.015

· Brucks, D., Marshall-Pescini, S Range, F. (2019) Dogs and wolves do not differ in their inhibitory control abilities in a non-social test battery Animal Cognition 22,16 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-018-1216-9

· Dale, R., Despraz, M.-N., Marshall-Pescini, S., Range, F. (2019) Piloting a new prosociality paradigm in dogs and wolves: The location choice task. Behavioural Processes DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2019.01.004

· Range, F., Marshall-Pescini, S., Kratz, C., Virányi, Z (2019) Wolves lead and dogs follow, but they both cooperate with humans Scientific Reports DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-40468-y.

· Cimarelli, G., Marshall-Pescini, S.,Range, F.,Virányi, Z. (2019) Pet dogs’ relationships vary rather individually than according to partner’s species. Scientific Reports DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-40164-x

· Lazzaroni, M., Range, F., Bernasconi, L., (...), Rao, A., Marshall-Pescini, S. (2019) The role of life experience in affecting persistence: A comparative study between free-ranging dogs, pet dogs and captive pack dogs PLoS ONE DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0214806

· Dale, R., Palma-Jacinto, S., Marshall-Pescini, S., Range, F. Wolves, but not dogs, are prosocial in a touch screen task. PLoS ONE DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0215444

· Marshall-Pescini, S, Basin, C, Range, F. (2018) A task-experienced partner does not help dogs be as successful as wolves in a cooperative string-pulling task. Scientific Reports 8(1), 16049. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-33771-7

· Rao, A., Range, F., Kadletz, K., Kotrschal, K., Marshall-Pescini, S. (2018) Food preferences of similarly raised and kept captive dogs and wolves. PloS ONE DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0203165

· Cafazzo, S., Marshall-Pescini, S., Essler, J.L., (...), Kotrschal, K., Range, F. (2018) In wolves, play behaviour reflects the partners' affiliative and dominance relationship. Animal Behaviour 141. DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.04.017

· Cafazzo, S., Marshall-Pescini, S., Lazzaroni, M., Virányi, Z., Range, F. (2018) The effect of domestication on post-conflict management: Wolves reconcile while dogs avoid each other Royal Society Open Science 5,7. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.171553

· Rao, A., Bernasconi, L, Lazzaroni, M., Marshall-Pescini S., Range F (2018) Differences in persistence between dogs and wolves in an unsolvable task in the absence of humans. PeerJ 11. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.5944

· Brucks, D., Range, F., Marshall-Pescini, S. (2017) Dogs' reaction to inequity is affected by inhibitory control. Scientific Reports 7(1) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-16087-w

· Barnard S, Marshall-Pescini S, Passalacqua C, Prato-Previde E, Pelosi, A, Valsecchi P (2017) Breed, sex, and litter effects in 2-month old puppies’ behaviour in a standardised open-field test. Scientific Reports 7, 1802. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-01992-x

· Lazzaroni, M, Marshall-Pescini, S, Cafazzo, S (2017) Post-conflict opponent affiliation reduces victim re-aggression in a family group of captive arctic wolves. Plos One 12(11): e0187450 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0187450

· Marshall-Pescini, S., Schwarz, JFL, Kostelnik, Virányi Z , Range, F (2017) The importance of a species’ socio-ecology: Wolves outperform dogs in a conspecific cooperation task. PNAS 10.1073/pnas.1709027114. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1709027114

· Marshall-Pescini S, Cafazzo S, Virányi Z, Range F (2017) Integrating social ecology in explanations of wolf-dog behavioral differences. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences16:80–86 doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2017.05.002

· Dale, R, Range F, Stotts L, Kotrschal K, Marshall-Pescini S (2017) The influence of social relationship on food tolerance in wolves and dogs. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 71:107 doi: 10.1007/s00265-017-2339-8

· Essler, JL, Marshall-Pescini, S, Range, F (2017) Domestication does not explain the presence of inequity aversion in dogs. Current Biology 27,12. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.05.061

· Dale, R, Marshall-Pescini S, Range F (2017) Do females use their sexual status to gain resource access? Investigating food-for-sex in wolves and dogs. Current Zoology 1-8 doi: 10.1093/cz/zow111

· Brucks, D., Marshall-Pescini, S., Wallis, L., Huber, L. & Range, F. (2017). Measures of dogs’ inhibitory control abilities do not correlate across tasks. Frontiers in Psychology, 8:849. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00849

· Marshall-Pescini S, Rao A, Virányi Z, Range F (2017) The role of domestication and experience in ‘looking back’ towards humans: comparing equally socialized dogs and wolves, pet dogs and free-ranging dogs in an unsolvable task. Sci. Rep. 7:46636 ; DOI: 10.1038/srep46636 1

· Brucks, D., Range, F., & Marshall-Pescini, S. (2017) Reward type and behavioural patterns predict dogs’ success in a delay of gratification paradigm. Scientific Reports | 7:42459 | DOI: 10.1038/srep42459

· Brucks, D., Marshall-Pescini, S., Essler, J. L., McGetrick, J., Huber, L. & Range, F. (2017) What are the ingredients for an inequity paradigm? Manipulating the experimenter’s involvement in an inequity task with dogs. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 270. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00270

· Marshall-Pescini S, Virányi Z, Kubinyi E, Range F (2017) Motivational factors underlying problem solving: comparing wolf and dog puppies’ explorative and neophobic behaviors at 5, 6 and 8 weeks of age. Front. Psychol. 8:180. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00180

· Dale R, Querval-Chaumette M, Huber L, Range F, Marshall-Pescini S (2016) Task differences and prosociality; Investigating pet dogs’ prosocial preferences in a token choice paradigm. Plos One 11(12): e0167750. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0167750

· Byosiere SE, Espinosa J, Sarah Marshall-Pescini S, Smuts B, Range F (2016) Investigating the function of play bows in dog and wolf puppies. Plos One 11(12): e0168570. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0168570

· Quervel-Chaumette, M; Mainix, G; Range, F; Marshall-Pescini, S (2016): Dogs Do Not Show Pro-social Preferences towards Humans. Front Psychol. 2016; 7:1416 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01416

· Marshall-Pescini, S, Besserdich I, Kratz C, Range, F (2016) Exploring differences in dogs’ and wolves’ preference for risk in a foraging task. Frontiers in Psychology. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01241

· Marshall-Pescini S, Dale, R, Quervel-Chaumette M, Range F (2016) Critical issues in experimental studies of prosociality in non-human species. Animal Cognition DOI 10.1007/s10071-016-0973-6.

· Marshall-Pescini, S, Frazzi, C, Valsecchi P (2016) The effect of training and breed group on problem-solving behaviours in dogs Animal Cognition DOI 10.1007/s10071-016-0960-y

· Essler, J, Cafazzo, S, Marshall-Pescini S, Viranyi, Zs, Range F (2016) Play behavior in wolves: Using the '50:50' rule to test for egalitarian play styles. 11(5): e0154150. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0154150

· Brucks, D, Essler, J, Marshall-Pescini S, Range F (2016) Inequity Aversion Negatively Affects Tolerance and Contact-Seeking Behaviours towards Partner and Experimenter PLoS ONE 11(4):e0153799. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0153799

· Quervel-Chaumette M, Faerber, V, Faragó T, Marshall-Pescini S, Range F (2016) Investigating empathy-like responding to conspecifics’ distress in pet dogs PLoS ONE 11(4), e0152920 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0152920

· Barnard S, Marshall-Pescini S, Passalacqua C, Beghelli V, Capra A, Normando, S, Pelosi, A, Valsecchi P (2016) Does Subjective Rating Reflect Behavioural Coding? Personality in 2 Month-Old Dog Puppies: An Open-Field Test and Adjective-Based Questionnaire PLoS ONE 11(3): e0149831.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0149831

· Cafazzo S, Lazzaroni M, Marshall-Pescini S (2016) Dominance relationships in a family pack of captive arctic wolves (Canis lupus arctos): the influence of competition for food, age and sex PeerJ DOI 10.7717/peerj.2707

· Quervel-Chaumette M, Dale, R, Marshall-Pescini S, Range F (2015) Familiarity affects other-regarding preferences in pet dogs. Scientific Reports 5:18102 DOI:10.1038/srep18102

· Merola, I, Lazzaroni, M, Marshall-Pescini, S, Prato-Previde, E (2015) Social referencing and cat-human communication. Animal Cognition 18(3): 639-643 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-014-0832-2

· Marshall-Pescini, S, Viranyi, Zs, Range, F. (2015) The effect of domestication on inhibitory control: wolves and dogs compared. PloS ONE 10 (2), e0118469 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118469

Peer-Reviewed Journals (2003-2014)

· Marshall-Pescini, S, Ceretta, M, Prato-Previde E. (2014) Do domestic dogs understand human actions as goal-directed? PLoS ONE 9(9): e106530.

· Fuhrmann, D., Ravignani, A., Marshall-Pecini, S. & Whiten, A. (2014). Synchrony and motor mimicking in chimpanzee observational learning. Scientific Reports, 4: 5283 doi:10.1038/srep05283.

· Merola, I, Prato-Previde E, Marshall-Pescini, S (2013) Dogs’ comprehension of referential emotional expressions: familiar people and familiar emotions are easier. Animal Cognition 17 (2), pp. 373-385

· Marshall-Pescini, S, Barnard, S, Branson, N, Valsecchi P (2013) The effect of sex and preferential paw usage on dogs’ (Canis familiaris) performance in a manipulative problem-solving task. Behavioural Processes 100, pp. 40-43

· Merola, I., Marshall-Pescini, S. D’Aniello, B., Prato-Previde E. (2013) Social Referencing: Water rescue dogs are less affected than pet dogs by the stranger’s message. Applied Animal Behaviour Science doi:10.1016/j.applanim.2013.05.010

· Passalacqua, C, Marshall-Pescini, S, Merola, I, Palestrini, C Prato-Previde, E (2013) Different problem-solving strategies in dogs diagnosed with anxiety-related disorders and control dogs in an unsolvable task paradigm. Applied Animal Behaviour Science. doi:10.1016/j.applanim.2013.05.003

· Marshall-Pescini, S, Colombo E, Passalacqua, C, Merola, I, Prato-Previde E (2013) Gaze alternation in dogs and toddlers in an unsolvable task: evidence of an audience effect. Animal Cognition DOI 10.1007/s10071-013-0627-x

· Merola, I, Prato-Previde, E, Marshall-Pescini, S (2012) Dogs' social referencing behaviour toward owners and strangers PLoS ONE 7(10): e47653. doi:10.1371/ journal.pone.0047653

· Marshall-Pescini, S, Passalacqua, Miletto-Pedrazzini MEValsecchi P, Prato Previde E. Do dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) make counterproductive choices because they are sensitive to human ostensive cues? PLoS ONE 7(4): e35437. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0035437

· Merola, I, Prato-Previde, E, Marshall-Pescini, S (2012) Social referencing in owner-dog dyads? Animal Cognition DOI 10.1007/s10071-011-0443-0. Social referencing.pdf

· Passalacqua, C, Marshall-Pescini, S, Barnard, S, Valsecchi P, Prato-Previde, E (2011) Breed and age group differences in human-directed gazing behaviour. Animal Behaviour 82, 1043-1050. Gazing puppies and adults.pdf

· Marshall-Pescini, S, Passalacqua, C, Ferrario, A, Valsecchi P, Prato-Previde, E (2011) Social eavesdropping in domestic dogs. Animal Behaviour doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.02.029. Social eavesdropping.pdf

· Marshall-Pescini, S, Valsecchi P, Prato-Previde E (2011). Are dogs (Canis familiaris) mislead more by their owners than by strangers in a food choice task? Animal Cognition Animal Cognition (2011) 14:137–142. Owner vs stranger social influence.pdf

· Marshall-Pescini, S, Passalacqua, C, Valsecchi P, Prato-Previde, E (2010) “Comment on: “Differential Sensitivity to Human Communication in Dogs, Wolves, and Human Infants”. Science 329, 142. DOI: 10.1126/science.1187748. Science comment.pdf

· Whiten, A, McGuigan, N, Marshall-Pescini, S, Hopper, L (2009) Emulation, Imitation, Over-imitation and the Scope of Culture for Child and Chimpanzee for a theme issue of Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B ‘Evolution, Development and Control of Imitation’ Edited by C. Heyes, L. Huber, G. Gergely and M. Brass. WhitenPhilTran09.pdf

· Marshall-Pescini, S, Passalacqua, C, Barnard, S, Valsecchi P, Prato-Previde, E (2009) Agility and Search & Rescue training differently affects pet dogs' behaviour in socio-cognitive tasks. Invited paper for a Special Issue on the dog-human relationship. Behavioural Processes 81, 416-422. Agility & SR.pdf

· Marshall-Pescini, S, Whiten, A (2008) Social learning of nut-cracking behaviour in East African sanctuary-living chimpanzees. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 122-2, 186-194. Nut-cracking.pdf

· Marshall-Pescini, S, Whiten, A (2008) Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and the question of cumulative culture: an experimental approach. Animal Cognition, 11, 449–456. Cumulative Culture.pdf

· Prato-Previde E, Marshall-Pescini S, Valsecchi P (2008) Is your choice my choice? Owners' influence on the pet dogs' performance in a food choice task. Animal Cognition, 11, 167-174. Social influence.pdf

· Marshall-Pescini, S, Valsecchi P, Petak, I, Accorsi P A, Prato-Previde (2008). Does training make you smarter? The effects of training on dogs' performance in a problem solving task. Behavioural Processes 78, 449-454. Training and problem solving.pdf

· Whiten, A, Horner, V., Litchfield, C., Marshall-Pescini, S. (2004) How do Apes Ape? Learning and Behaviour 32(1), pp. 36-52. How_do_apes_ape.pdf

· Whiten, A, Marshall-Pescini, S. Horner, V. (2003) “Cultural Panthropology” Evolutionary Anthropology ,12-2, pp.92-5. cultural panthropology.pdf

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