Dog Brains Reveal How Much Human Language They Actually Understand

This study really highlights that dogs don t process language as humans do, and that while we train dogs with verbal commands to perform actions, this doesn t mean that they derive the same meaning from nouns the way humans do, study co-author Ashley Prichard tells Inverse. Prichard is a doctoral student at Emory University who specializes in studying the neural mechanisms underlying perception and decision-making in dogs using awake fMRI.

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