Animal cognition: Dogs build semantic expectations between spoken words and objects.

Curr Biol

Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA; Departments of Linguistics and Kinesiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA; Program in Neuroscience and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA.

Published: May 2024

A recent study has used scalp-recorded electroencephalography to obtain evidence of semantic processing of human speech and objects by domesticated dogs. The results suggest that dogs do comprehend the meaning of familiar spoken words, in that a word can evoke the mental representation of the object to which it refers.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.03.045DOI Listing

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