In Shany Dror's study, super-smart canines had 90% accuracy in fetching toys whose names they learned directly or overheard; ...

For instance, the group’s 2022 study discovered that dogs store key sensory features about their toys—notably what they look ...

Dogs can learn new words just by overhearing human conversations, a study has found. Many dog owners find they have to avoid ...

These “Gifted Word Learner” (GWL) dogs can learn names for objects by overhearing exchanges between members of their human ...

Overall, the gifted dogs performed just as well when learning from overheard speech, as when they were directly taught.

According to the team, these findings suggest a dog’s ability to learn from overheard speech may rely on brain mechanisms ...

A team led by cognitive scientist Shany Dror from Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary found that so-called Gifted Word ...