Dogs with a large vocabulary of object labels learn new labels by overhearing like 1.5-year-old infants · S. Dror et al.
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Shany Dror1,2,3*, Ádám Miklósi2,3,4, Boglárka Morvai2,5, Andreea-Silvia Năstase2, Claudia Fugazza2,3 Children as young as 18 months can acquire novel words by overhearing third-party interactions. Demonstrating similar learning processes in nonhuman species would indicate that the social-cognitive skills supporting this process are not exclusively human but may have evolved, or can develop, in other species, offering valuable insights into the origins of language-related cognition. In this study, we demonstrated that a small group of Gifted Word Learner dogs, which possess an extensive vocabulary of object labels, can learn new labels by overhearing their owners’ interactions. Moreover, we show that these dogs can acquire novel object-label mappings even when the labels and objects are not presented simultaneously. …
摘自《科学》(Science)第391卷 第6781期 · 2026年1月8日,S. Dror et al.。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。