The fact that our four-legged companions are able to recognize words will come as no surprise to dog owners who are used to being able to tell their pets to /”sit/” or /”fetch/”.
However, a new study carried out at the Eotvos Lorand University in the Hungarian capital Budapest measured dogs’ brain activity to show that they can activate a memory of an object when they hear its name.
During the study 18 dog owners said words for objects their pets knew. Then in some cases, they would present the dog with an object that matched the word, while in other cases the object didn’t match.
The results showed that there was a different pattern in the dogs’ brains when the words matched the objects compared to when they didn’t. This is similar to what can be observed in humans.
The researchers plan to examine if this ability to understand referential language is specific to dogs or might be present in other mammals as well. – Report from Reuters
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