Can Your Dog Understand You? The Truth About Canine Language

Does your dog actually understand what you say? 🐕 A retired professor spent three years teaching one border collie the names of over a thousand toys. A lab in Budapest scanned the brains of dogs while they listened to praise. And a horse in Berlin fooled all of Europe, until one psychologist figured out how. In this video we look at what science really knows about dogs and human words: how dogs read your face and gestures, what happens inside a dog's brain when it hears your voice, why a few "gifted" dogs can learn hundreds of words, and why most of the time your dog may be responding to you, not to your vocabulary. ⏱ Chapters 0:00 The professor on the porch 0:43 Does your dog understand you? 0:15 Dogs are experts at reading humans 1:35 Inside a dog's brain: words vs. tone 2:36 Rico, Chaser and the gifted word learners 3:33 Clever Hans: the horse that read people 4:36 So, what does your dog really understand? 📚 Research mentioned Pilley & Reid (2011), Chaser and object-name learning, Behavioural Processes Kaminski, Call & Fischer (2004), Rico and fast mapping, Science Hare et al. (2002), dogs and human pointing gestures, Science Andics et al. (2016), neural mechanisms for word and intonation processing in dogs, Science Müller et al. (2015), dogs and human facial expressions, Current Biology Kaminski et al. (2019), evolution of facial muscle anatomy in dogs, PNAS Pfungst (1907), Clever Hans If you enjoyed this, like the video and subscribe for more short, science-backed looks at how animals think. #dogs #animalbehavior #animalcognition