For years, researchers have known that young children pick up words just by being around conversation. Toddlers do not need ...

Miso, a six-year-old male Border collie from Canada, knows the names of about 200 toys and participated in a new study of how ...

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A group of “gifted word learner” dogs can learn new words that label objects by overhearing their owners talking with each other, according to a new study by Shany Dror and colleagues. These dogs can ...

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Some dogs, known as label learners, have the ability to learn the names of objects. What gives these dogs this special ...

New research suggests prodigious pups that already have large vocabularies can learn new words by listening in on their ...

“We already know that all dogs are basically able to learn action labels: things like ‘sit down,’ ‘stay’ but it seems like ...

Some dogs can learn new object names by overhearing human conversation, highlighting advanced learning skills also seen in ...

The study’s findings add to evidence that the cognitive and social abilities that underpin language learning are not limited to humans — and highlight just how adept dogs are at reading human signals.

Beyond the labels that they use for themselves, the policy proposals of candidates and their parties show that their ...

As Americans across the country demonstrate their opposition to Donald Trump’s immigration offensive, the president and his ...