Episode 902
Dogs can pick out words from speech
Some very good dogs can identify individual words from a string of syllables
Naked Scientists, In Short Special Editions Podcast · The Naked Scientists
November 16, 20214m 42s
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Show Notes
The first part of understanding a new language is working out where one word stops and the next word starts out of a string of syllables. Researchers at ELTE University in Hungary have been looking at how dogs' brains respond to language to figure out if they can recognise words, as Sally Le Page found out from author Marianna Boros... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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marianna borosdogwordsmriBRAINlanguage