Do dogs know what we're saying?

Hungarian researchers studied how dogs respond to human speech and found that they might understand some of it, Tabitha M. Powledge writes: "I hope neuroscientists will be looking for similar capacities in the brains of other mammals. That means, though, that they will have to figure out how to get the mammal species under study to lie quietly in the clanging intimidation of an MRI machine for several minutes." Also, how journalists contribute to physics misperceptions.

September 10, 2016

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