Dog Brains Track Consonant Patterns in Speech, a First Outside Humans
EEG recordings from 20 dogs and 20 adults found both species tracked consonant patterns more than vowels to identify word boundaries in speech.
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Writing Science, Sep 24 (EFE).- Dogs, like humans, tend to rely more on consonants than on vowels when it comes to identifying the limits of words in speech, as suggested by a study published by Science led by Hungarian researchers.The brain of dogs divides speech [...] The entry Dogs, like humans, have preference for consonants was first published in HolaNews.
Dog brains track consonant patterns in speech, a first outside humans
Dog brains segment speech into words in a way previously seen only in humans, a new study from Hungary finds. This suggests that efficient speech processing is not necessarily a consequence of humans' unique language abilities: Regular exposure to speech alone can reshape how the brain functions, even in a mammalian species evolutionarily distant from humans. The discovery by the Neuroethology of Communication Lab at the ELTE Department of Ethology in Budapest is published in Science.
Scientists discover pets' brains understand human speech
For thousands of years, dog owners have sworn their four-legged friends understand every word they say.Now scientists have discovered that dogs’ brains really do adapt to the sound of human speech.A new study has found dogs brains can change just listening to people - allowing them to break up our speech into individual words in a similar way to humans.It is the first time this type of speech processing has been found in the brain of any species…
One study analyzes how they develop the preferred consonant bias, imitating humans. They are not the only ones: rats and ChatGPT copy certain forms of language processing
We speak to dogs. We call them by name, ask them to go for the ball or sit down, we ask them if they are hungry or cold, we tell them how handsome they are and even, more than once, we use them as confessors. We constantly expose them to our talk. And in doing so, we have transformed them in an unexpected way: we have modified their brain in a way never seen in any other animal, except ourselves.
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