It might not seem like it when you're shouting "sit" or "fetch" to a blank canine face, but it turns out dogs understand both the words we speak and how we say them.
That's the conclusion of a new study from Hungary, in which researchers studied the MRI scans of a bunch of dogs and found that they're using the same parts of their brain as humans to process what they hear.
In a project conducted by Attila Andics, a research fellow at Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest and published in the journal Science, researchers found that dogs process words with the left hemisphere and pitch with the right. Read more...
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