Dog is considered to be the closest and dearest animal to humans. There is often a debate about dogs whether dogs understand what humans say or not? In some research it is claimed that dogs understand what humans say. At the same time, some scientists have also claimed that dogs do not understand anything that humans say. Today we will tell you what has come to light in scientific research regarding dogs.
Do dogs really understand what humans say?
According to Inside Your Dog’s Mind, research by anthropologist Dr. Brian Hare of Duke University has revealed that dogs have the ability to understand the complexities of human communication. Chaser, a dog, demonstrated extraordinary linguistic abilities by learning the names of more than 1,000 objects, proving that dogs understand human language.
Researchers Dr. Alex Benjamin and Dr. Katie Slocombe from the University of York, Atlantic, have studied the effect of human speech on dogs’ reactions. His research included 37 adult dogs. His research revealed that apart from understanding human language, dogs also understand physical gestures and reactions.
second research
However, a few years ago, researchers from Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest had found that dogs have hearing abilities like humans. They can also recognize the sounds of speech, but dogs do not have the ability to distinguish between the sounds of words. It was said in the research that dogs react only to the human voice and not to his words.
How was the experiment done?
In the research, scientists gave the dogs the kind of instructions that they are usually given. Dogs were said to sit, but when they were used with similar words such as sit, sit was used. According to the report, a researcher said that dogs are not able to differentiate between the speech sounds of real words and the sounds of similar words and consider them all to be the same sound.
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