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welcome to the good news ride home for th, August 6th, 2020. I'm Jackson Bird.

Further findings into just how much of our speech dogs can understand.

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We tend to talk to our pets as if they understand human language, but do they really?

How much of what we're saying do our pets actually understand? Well, when it comes to dogs

at least, apparently quite a bit, in a way.

Quoting Fast Company,

researchers in Hungary put a dozen very cooperative golden retrievers,

border collies, and a German shepherd in an fMRI machine,

and murmured praise and unknown words,

such as if and yet,

in varying intonations.

They found that the dog's brains responded to speech just like a human brain would, processing emotional meaning separately from word meaning. In both

dogs and humans, ancient subcortical parts of the brain process intonations, while higher

cortical parts of the brain process word meanings.

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