{"id":515,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/20\/dogs-can-actually-understand-humans-new-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:57","slug":"dogs-can-actually-understand-humans-new-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/dogs-can-actually-understand-humans-new-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Dogs can actually understand humans, new study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2024-06-20 10:54:44<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Dogs can actually understand humans.<BR><br \/>\nA new study has carried out by E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University in Hungary found that canines are capable of associating a certain object with a word  and brain activity recordings suggest they activate a matching mental representation in their minds.<BR><br \/>\nFirst author Dr. Marianna Boros said: \u201cDogs do not only react with a learned behavior to certain words.<BR><br \/>\n\u201cThey also don\u2019t just associate that word with an object based on temporal contiguity without really understanding the meaning of those words, but they activate a memory of an object when they hear its name.\u201d<BR><br \/>\nThe study, published in the journal Current Biology, analyses what words or phrases dogs understand by measuring brain activity using non-invasive Electroencephalography (EEG) without asking them to act.<BR><br \/>\nAs part of the research, the team had 18 dog owners say words for toys that their dogs were familiar were with and charted how they reacted at each instance.<BR><br \/>\nCo-first author Professor Lilla Magyari said: \u201cBecause typical dogs learn instruction words rather than object names, and there are only a handful of dogs with a large vocabulary of object words, we expected that dogs\u2019 capacity for referential understanding of object words will be linked to the number of object words they know; but it wasn\u2019t.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangpremier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Visit Bang Premier (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024-06-20 10:54:44 Dogs can actually understand humans. A new study has carried out by E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University in Hungary found that canines are capable of associating a certain object with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}