How the brain deciphers words can explain a lot about why humans are able to pick up patterns and read words even when vowels are missing.

But when parrots live with people, they don't have any flockmates to learn "parrot" from. Instead, they use their highly ...

Boros wondered whether more dogs understand that words have meanings but have no way to show it. Even when dogs succeed in behavioral studies, she said, “you never know exactly what happens in ...

These one-word-to-one-object connections show that dogs have a basic understanding of words. According to a study, a dog's ability to understand human words is roughly equivalent to that of a 12 ...

Source: Grzegorz Eliasiewicz, used with permission. Humans use words to refer to objects in the environment. We understand that certain words “stand for” certain objects, and this ...

Published in the journal PLOS ONE last month, Rossano's findings suggest dogs in the study were able to understand certain words, contributing to the possibility of an enhanced bond between dog ...