Dogs can distinguish between languages, researchers in Hungary found, after playing excerpts from the story 'The Little Prince' in Spanish and Hungarian to a group of 18 canines and examining how their brains reacted.
BUDAPEST, Jan 6 - Dogs can distinguish between languages, researchers in Hungary found, after playing excerpts from the story "The Little Prince" in Spanish and Hungarian to a group of 18 canines and examining how their brains reacted.
"I wondered whether Kun-kun noticed that people in Budapest spoke a different language, Hungarian," she said." we found for the first time that a non-human brain can distinguish languages." All the dogs had heard only one of the two languages -- either Hungarian or Spanish -- from their owners before, allowing researchers to compare how their brain reacted to a highly familiar language and to a completely unfamiliar one.
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