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Scientists reveal how dogs decode what humans are saying

The furry friends are able to process words in a similar method to babies learning language, new study finds

The Independent UK · Sep 25

What Your Dog's Brain Actually Does When It Hears Your Voice, According to fMRI Research

The Scan That Changed EverythingIn 2016, a team led by neuroethologist Attila Andics at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest put dogs inside an fMRI machine and played them human voices. The dogs had been trained over months to lie still without sedation, a feat that itself says something about how…

Times Life · Aug 29

Animal Memory Research Is Overturning Everything We Thought We Knew About Cognition

The assumption that crumbled firstThe standard view held that episodic memory, the ability to mentally replay a specific past event, not just respond to a learned cue, was uniquely human. Then came a 1998 study by Nicola Clayton and Anthony Dickinson at Cambridge University, published in Nature, that changed the…

Times Life · Jul 13