I'm a dog loving freak! Always had dogs my entire childhood and now in my adult life. I feel a bigger bond with animals than I do with humans. That's just my weird self. No, I am not Dr. Doolittle or the Dog whisperer. I just like dogs...and would try and recuse a ton if I could afford it. I already have 3.
Before I digress anymore, let me get to what I want to talk about. You know how you are always talking to your dog like a human-being and telling them what to do and you think that they could almost understand what you are saying but then you just shake it off like you are crazy. Well you may not crazy at all.
A recent in the Cell Press journal Current Biology released November 26, shows the first evidence of how dogs differentiate and process those various components of human speech. Your furry little friend can differentiate between the words you say and the emotion behind them.
"Previous studies showed that dogs have hemispheric biases--left brain versus right--when they process the vocalization sounds of other dogs. Ratcliffe and her supervisor David Reby say it was a logical next step to investigate whether dogs show similar biases in response to the information transmitted in human speech. They played speech from either side of the dog so that the sounds entered each of their ears at the same time and with the same amplitude." (Sciene Daily: Dogs hear our words and how we say them)
The results: "The researchers did observe general biases in dogs' responses to particular aspects of human speech. When presented with familiar spoken commands in which the meaningful components of words were made more obvious, dogs showed a left-hemisphere processing bias, as indicated by turning to the right. When the intonation or speaker-related vocal cues were exaggerated instead, dogs showed a significant right-hemisphere bias." (Sciene Daily: Dogs hear our words and how we say them)
Obviously, it doesn't mean that they will understand everything we say. It just means that they are paying attention to what we say and can make decisions on what we are saying really means to them.
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A recent in the Cell Press journal Current Biology released November 26, shows the first evidence of how dogs differentiate and process those various components of human speech. Your furry little friend can differentiate between the words you say and the emotion behind them.
"Previous studies showed that dogs have hemispheric biases--left brain versus right--when they process the vocalization sounds of other dogs. Ratcliffe and her supervisor David Reby say it was a logical next step to investigate whether dogs show similar biases in response to the information transmitted in human speech. They played speech from either side of the dog so that the sounds entered each of their ears at the same time and with the same amplitude." (Sciene Daily: Dogs hear our words and how we say them)
The results: "The researchers did observe general biases in dogs' responses to particular aspects of human speech. When presented with familiar spoken commands in which the meaningful components of words were made more obvious, dogs showed a left-hemisphere processing bias, as indicated by turning to the right. When the intonation or speaker-related vocal cues were exaggerated instead, dogs showed a significant right-hemisphere bias." (Sciene Daily: Dogs hear our words and how we say them)
Obviously, it doesn't mean that they will understand everything we say. It just means that they are paying attention to what we say and can make decisions on what we are saying really means to them.
Listen to the podcast of this blog.
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