The influence of body region, handler familiarity and order of region handled on the domestic cat's response to being stroked

Ellis, Sarah; Thompson, Hannah; Guijarro-Clarke, Cristina; Zulch, Helen

doi:10.1016/j.applanim.2014.11.002

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“…Taking them to clinic should be a stressor. Petting could be rewarding to the cat 37 , although depending on the cats’ personality, it could also be a stressor 38 . These situations would facilitate a cat’s learning to discriminate its own name from those of other cats.…”

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Domestic cats (Felis catus) discriminate their names from other words

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Shinozuka

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Two of the most common nonhuman animals that interact with humans are domestic dogs ( Canis familiaris ) and cats ( Felis catus ). In contrast to dogs, the ability of domestic cats to communicate with humans has not been explored thoroughly. We used a habituation-dishabituation method to investigate whether domestic cats could discriminate human utterances, which consisted of cats’ own names, general nouns, and other cohabiting cats’ names. Cats from ordinary households and from a ‘cat café’ participated in the experiments. Among cats from ordinary households, cats habituated to the serial presentation of four different general nouns or four names of cohabiting cats showed a significant rebound in response to the subsequent presentation of their own names; these cats discriminated their own names from general nouns even when unfamiliar persons uttered them. These results indicate that cats are able to discriminate their own names from other words. There was no difference in discrimination of their own names from general nouns between cats from the cat café and household cats, but café cats did not discriminate their own names from other cohabiting cats’ names. We conclude that cats can discriminate the content of human utterances based on phonemic differences.

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Domestic cats (Felis catus) discriminate their names from other words

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Shinozuka

Ito

et al. 2019

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“…However, previous studies have shown that house cats respond differently to familiar and unfamiliar humans facing them directly (Collard 1967;Ellis Thompson Guijarro and Zulch 2015;Galvan and Vonk 2016). Further research should be conducted on cats' ability to discriminate the owner's face from a stranger's face when only visual information is presented.…”

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Cats match voice and face: cross-modal representation of humans in cats (Felis catus)

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We examined whether cats have a cross-modal representation of humans, using a cross-modal expectancy violation paradigm originally used with dogs by Adachi et al. (2007). We compared cats living in houses and in cat cafés to assess the potential effect of postnatal experience. Cats were presented with the face of either their owner or a stranger on a laptop monitor after playing back the voice of one of two people calling the subject's name. In half of the trials the voice and face were of the same person (congruent condition) whereas in the other half of trials the stimuli did not match (incongruent condition). The café cats paid attention to the monitor longer in incongruent than congruent conditions, showing an expectancy violation. By contrast, house cats showed no similar tendency. These results show that at least café cats can predict their owner's face upon hearing the owner's voice, suggesting possession of cross-modal representation of at least one human. There may be a minimal kind or amount of postnatal experiences that lead to formation of a cross-modal representation of a specific person.

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“…Looking specifically at one type of human-cat interaction, namely stroking the cat, Ellis et al (2015a) analyzed the influence of body region touched and handler familiarity on the cats' behavioral response to being stroked. Both parameters significantly influenced negative responses by the cats.…”

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A review of over three decades of research on cat-human and human-cat interactions and relationships

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The influence of body region, handler familiarity and order of region handled on the domestic cat's response to being stroked

Cited by 29 publications

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Domestic cats (Felis catus) discriminate their names from other words

Domestic cats (Felis catus) discriminate their names from other words

Cats match voice and face: cross-modal representation of humans in cats (Felis catus)

A review of over three decades of research on cat-human and human-cat interactions and relationships

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