Dogs Hear What We Say and How We Say Them

A recent research study reveals that dogs can understand what a man speaks. "Although we cannot say how much or in what way dogs understand information in speech from our study, we can say that dogs react to both verbal and speaker-related information and that these components appear to be processed in different areas of the dog's brain," says Victoria Ratcliffe of the School of Psychology at the University of Sussex. Previous studies showed that dogs have hemispheric ...