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Some Dogs Are ‘Gifted Word Learners’ That Learn Language by Eavesdropping—Just Like Human Toddlers
New research suggests prodigious pups that already have large vocabularies can learn new words by listening in on their ...
Toddlers can pick up new words just by overhearing conversations. Now, new research suggests that some intelligent dogs can ...
According to the team, these findings suggest a dog’s ability to learn from overheard speech may rely on brain mechanisms ...
These “Gifted Word Learner” (GWL) dogs can learn names for objects by overhearing exchanges between members of their human ...
Some dogs can learn new object names by overhearing human conversation, highlighting advanced learning skills also seen in ...
Researchers at the Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center in Richmond have induced heart attacks in dogs, surgically implanted pacemakers into them and trained them to run on treadmills, all in the ...
A controversial experiment on dogs continues at a Veterans Affairs medical center in Ohio. The dogs are used in experiments that officials say could help veterans with ALS, paralysis and stroke cough, ...
One of five billboards going up near the state capital and one on I-75 in Detroit, calling on Wayne State University to stop cruel experiments on dogs. Credit: Physicians Commitee for Responsible ...
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