Could dogs ever learn something like speech? A new review explores the science behind enhancing canine communication.

For years, researchers have known that young children pick up words just by being around conversation. Toddlers do not need ...

Pet owners know that some dogs are more apt to listen to speech and pick up commands more quickly than others. A team of researchers says there is a small subset of dogs that can learn language by ...

This is not comparable to word learning in children. By around age two, typical English-speaking children learn approximately ...

Anna Gabor and colleagues at the Hungarian Academy of Science recently published functional MRI (fMRI) studies of dog’s brains, showing that canines process human language pretty much the same way we ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Our dogs communicate with us all the time, not just with vocalization, but through canine body language like ...