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Dog brains divide language tasks much like humans do

Meaning, intonation interpreted separately, study finds

dogs with MRI machine

GOOD DOGS  To see how dogs process speech, these pooches were trained to undergo MRI brain scans. The results: Dogs are a lot like humans.  

Enikő Kubinyi

By Laurel Hamers

- More than 2 years ago

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Editor’s note: When reporting results from the functional MRI scans of dogs’ brains, left and right were accidentally reversed in all images, the researchers report in a correction posted April 7 in Science.