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 understanding is ...

It's well-known that dogs can learn words for spoken commands like "sit," "stand" and "heel." But a new study has found they also can tell their "ball-ball" from their "dolly," "teddy," "chewy" or ...

It’s no surprise that dogs can learn to understand and respond to human words. Your dog can learn to sit when you say “sit” and come when called. But a new study has made the surprising discovery by ...

Dogs seem to understand that words represent specific objects, recordings of their brain activity suggest. Although some dogs can fetch a wide range of different objects on command, few do well on ...

It’s no surprise that your dog can learn to sit when you say “sit” and come when called. But a study appearing March 22 in the journal Current Biology has made the unexpected discovery that dogs ...