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WHEN dogs listen to their owners, they focus on the consonants in words rather than vowels, a new study suggests, apparently mimicking a similar human bias that is found across many languages. Although dogs don’t have language, they live in a speech-rich environment, says Attila Andics at Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary. “We knew from our previous studies that dogs care about what we speak and how we speak, but until now, there was no evidence that dogs’ experience with speech can actually shape how their brains function,” says Andics. …
摘自《新科学家》(New Scientist)2026年10月3日,James Woodford。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。