A new study shows that gifted word learner dogs extend verbal labels to new objects based on functional similarity and form ...

"So now it turns out that these dogs can do the same.” Fugazza and her Hungarian colleagues have been studying canine behavior and cognition for several years. For instance, in 2023, we reported on ...

A study published in Current Biology by the Department of Ethology at Eötvös Loránd University reveals that dogs with a vocabulary of toy names—known as Gifted Word Learners—can extend learned labels ...

One year after receiving a grant to study canine vocalizations, The University of Texas at Arlington researcher Kenny Zhu has ...

Dogs that easily learn the names of toys might also mentally sort them by function, a new example of complex cognitive activity in the canine brain.

As infants, humans naturally learn new words and their associations—like the fact that forks are related to bowls because ...

"And they were roommates," one viewer said, while another added: "They look like they've been married for 25 years." ...

For the study, owners of 10 talented dogs —mostly border collies—taught them words for two categories: tug toys, called pulls ...

DeepSeek found that it could improve the reasoning and outputs of its model simply by incentivizing it to perform a trial-and ...