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Dogs Understand What You Say and How

Man’s best friend, it turns out, is also a good listener, according to a new study. Researchers in Hungary say dogs can actually understand many things their owners say to them, and they have the brain scans to prove it. The researchers say that during the scans, it became apparent that dogs process words in the left hemisphere while intonation was interpreted by the right hemisphere, like human brains. The dogs had been trained to remain still in the MRI, and were not restrained or...


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