Aug. 3 (UPI) --For thousands of years, humans have been talking to dogs. Through the years, dozens of studies have confirmed what many dog owners already knew, that dogs are capable of understanding ...

There’s a reason that you talk to dogs like they understand: They kinda do. Dogs’ brains process speech just like human brains do. Researchers in Hungary put a dozen very cooperative golden retrievers ...

Dog brains, just as human brains, process speech hierarchically: intonations at lower, word meanings at higher stages, according to a new study by Hungarian researchers at the Department of Ethology, ...

The average 20-year-old knows between 27,000 and 52,000 different words. By age 60, that number averages between 35,000 and 56,000. Spoken out loud, most of these words last less than a second. So, ...

Despite not being able to talk, dogs process speech in the same way as humans do, according to a new study. Both dogs and human brains separately process the intonation – how a voice rises and falls – ...

Our brains process foreign-accented speech with better real-time accuracy if we can identify the accent we hear, according to a team of neurolinguists. Our brains process foreign-accented speech with ...

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An engineer from the Johns Hopkins Center for Language and Speech Processing has developed a machine learning model that can distinguish functions of speech in transcripts of dialogues outputted by ...

Understanding the functional anatomy of speech perception has been a topic of intense investigation for more than 130 years, and interest in the basis of speech and language dates back to the earliest ...