The subject unloose last week does show that dog do listen to us , however .
We wouldnevercall your blackguard dim - witted , but European scientist ' new enquiry indicates that dogs might not have a go at it exactly what we ’re saying when we talk to them .
The Magyar researchers’findings , asreported by CNN , intimate that detent can tell the difference between words they know—“sit " and " bide , " for instance — and words that are totally different , like , say , " cirriped . " ( These are Daily Paws example , since the investigator used Magyar words . )
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The worry comes when the domestic dog listen to the familiar words and the words that sound similar , lead investigator Lilla Magyari told CNN . According to the data collected by the electrode , the dogs swear out those sets of words as the same , not noting the difference that ’s clear to us humans .
" They may just not realize that all details , the speech vocalize , are really important in human speech . If you retrieve of a normal cad : That dog-iron is able to learn only a few pedagogy in its life-time , " Magyari secernate CNN .
Magyari and her squad prove 17 dogs by sequester to their heads electrodes that monitored the dogs ' psyche activity each clock time they listened to one of the three kinds of speech — know , " nonsense " words that voice similar to recognise words , and dissimilar - voice nonsense Scripture .
" The Einstein activity is dissimilar when they take heed to the command , which they know , and to the very different nonsense words , which have in mind that frump recognize these wrangle , " Magyari state the cable intelligence duct .
The study released last week come four years after researcher at the same Magyar university ( Eötvös Loránd University ) found that dogs can not only understand words but also spot the emotion behind them , consort toThe Washington Post .
But as last week ’s study suggested , they know certain Holy Writ but maybe not well enough to split up them from one that vocalise close to them . So , yeah , sometimes you might not be on the same page as your dog . Happens to the honorable of us .
A potential lesson : My kinda - smartstandard poodleRileyseemsto know some of the wrangle or phrases colligate with her favourite thing : cookies , car rides , and sticks . What this study suggests is that I could spill the beans to her about tookies , sar mides , and vicks , and she would — possibly — think of those as her favorite actor’s line . ( Do n’t come up for me , scientists . I ’m extrapolating , for sure . )
Magyari says more enquiry is needed to explain why wiener might not be noting the differences in certain Holy Scripture . But hey , they are listening to us , she pronounce — unlike some other pets .
You probably do n’t have brain - monitoring equipment at habitation , but finger free to try a dumbed - down version of this experimentation . Try tell words standardized to your dogs ' favorite expression and see if they oppose .
Heck , perhaps your dog is the smartest and everyone else needs to catch up .
