Our canine companions may not engage in human conversation, but their ability to understand and respond to certain words is truly remarkable. Through consistent association and positive reinforcement, ...

Source: Grzegorz Eliasiewicz, used with permission. Humans use words to refer to objects in the environment. We understand that certain words “stand for” certain objects, and this understanding is ...

Science shows that dogs learn to form mental representations of words, shedding light on why they often seem to grasp our conversations. Nothing quite captures the heart like videos of dogs appearing ...

In their classic 1998 textbook on cognitive neuroscience, Michael Gazzaniga, Richard Ivry, and George Mangun made a sobering observation: there was no clear mapping between how we process language and ...