Scientists find dogs' brains adapt to understand human speech

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 25 Sept, 12:42 · Archive

Dogs' brains can process human speech by breaking it into individual words, similar to how humans do.

Scientists have discovered that dogs' brains adapt to human speech, allowing them to break up what people say into individual words in a similar way to humans and comparable to how babies learn language. This is the first time this type of speech processing has been found in any species other than mankind.

How it is being reported

• Scientists reveal how dogs decode what humans are sayingThe Independent · 25 Sept, 11:57
• Scientists discover pets' brains understand human speechGB News · 24 Sept, 19:00

In this story: dogs

This summary was written by AI from the headlines and standfirsts above, and states as fact only what at least two outlets report. How we use AI · Report a problem