Dogs are known to respond to command words such as "sit". The researchers said it did not matter how many object words a dog understood —known words activated mental representations anyway. The brain activity recordings showed differences in patterns when the dogs were shown matching objects against those when shown non-matching ones, the researchers said and added that this was …
Known to respond to command words such as "sit", dogs have now been found to conjure up mental representations when they hear known words referring to objects such as a ball, according to a new research that analysed their brain activity. The researchers said it did not matter how many object words a dog understood -- known words activated mental …
Luna, a Shiba Inu, is outfitted with electrodes before participating in an experiment to test her knowledge of familiar words. “For decades there has been a debate about whether animals are capable of such a level of abstraction,” said study leader Marianna Boros, a neuroscientist and ethologist at Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary. Even when dogs succeed in behavioral …
