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This is Scientific American's 60 Second Science. I'm Christopher in Taliatta.

You know how in the Roadrunner cartoons,

whenever something drops like Wiley I. Coyote falling off a cliff,

it makes this sound.

And obviously, if we hear that sound,

you assume that something's falling down rather than going up.

And this is something that we, as humans, do automatically.

Anna Korgjinovska is an animal behavior scientist at the University of Sussex in the UK.

And she wanted to see whether dogs might also associate falling objects with falling sounds.

But obviously we can't ask them.

So instead, she recruited 101 canines,

not all Dalmatians, in case you're wondering,

and she had the dogs watch a short video sequence in the lab

of a blue ball rising and falling on the screen.

The video was accompanied by either a corresponding rising and falling tone

or the opposite, more counterintuitive pairing of the ball

falling with a tone that was rising. After running these tests, the researchers analyzed video of the

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