Dogs understand both vocabulary and intonation of human speech

Monday, August 29, 2016 - 22:01 in Psychology & Sociology

Dogs have the ability to distinguish vocabulary words and the intonation of human speech through brain regions similar to those that humans use, a new study reports. Attila Andics et al. note that vocabulary learning “does not appear to be a uniquely human capacity that follows from the emergence of language, but rather a more […]

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