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Stills from the videos shown to the children with a person teaching them the names of new objects in the three experimental conditions. Credits: Joan Birulés and Mathilde Fort. A research team from ...

The study involved pups like Miso, a 6-year-old male border collie from Canada who knows the names of about 200 toys. Veronica Suen Eavesdropping on their owners seems to help some highly gifted dogs ...

You may want to choose your words carefully around your canine companion: new research reveals that a group of ‘gifted’ dogs can learn new names by eavesdropping on their owners. ‘Gifted word learner’ ...

A group of “gifted word learner” dogs can learn new words that label objects by overhearing their owners talking with each other, according to a new study by Shany Dror and colleagues. These dogs can ...

That meant he was not using visual cues from his owner. The next big question was whether Rico could learn new name-object combinations the way young children do. Children often learn new words ...

Imagine Max, a well-trained border collie, manages to ignore a squirrel in the park when his owner tells him to sit. His owner says, “Max, stop chasing that squirrel and sit down,” and Max obeys. Can ...