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

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

According to a new study, your dog may learn language similar to how your toddler does, giving the term "fur baby" a whole ...

We’ve all had that moment where we’re mid-conversation and suddenly our dog perks up at a single word, and it's usually one of the buzz words like “walk,” “treat,” or “ball.” But according to new ...

Research suggests they learn as well as 1.5-year-old toddlers.

There's a few special words that will perk the ears of many a dog -- hungry, park, and of course T-R-E-A-T. But a choice group of gifted canines appear to have remarkable capacity for learning human ...

The research suggests that dogs have the neurological capacity to eavesdrop and learn new words when they hear humans talking ...

Gifted word learner dogs seem capable of eavesdropping about as well as 18-month-old toddlers, the study researchers say. Reading time 4 minutes Dogs might have more tricks up their furry sleeves than ...

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

Imagine Max, a well-trained border collie, manages to ignore a squirrel in the park when his owner tells him to sit. His ...

Spelling F-O-O-D or O-U-T might only get you so far around your dog if he or she is considered a Gifted Word Learner (GWL). Researchers have just figured out that even when you're not talking to them ...

In a recent study published in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers evaluated whether dog-owner relationships can be characterized using the same multidimensional social support scales applied ...