Dogs can also distinguish between languages.. this is what researchers have discovered

Dogs can distinguish between languages... This is what researchers in Hungary discovered after showing clips from the story "The Little Prince" in Spanish and Hungarian to a group of 18 dogs and testing the reactions of their brains.

The research team was led by Laura V.

Kauaya is from Ötvös Lorand University in Budapest, which she moved to from Mexico a few years ago with her dog Coon-Con.

"I wondered, 'Has Kun-Kun noticed that people in Budapest speak a different language?'" she said.

She added that researchers discovered for the first time that the non-human brain can distinguish between languages.

During the experiment, the researchers trained Kun-kun and the rest of the dogs to lie still in the brain scan machine for minutes.

And all of these dogs heard only one language from their owners, either Spanish or Hungarian, which allowed the researchers to compare how their brains responded to a language they were familiar with with strength and a language that was not known at all.

The dogs listened to passages from the story "The Little Prince" in Spanish and Hungarian as well as scrambled versions of those passages to test their ability to distinguish between speech and non-speech syllables.

When comparing brain responses, the researchers found varying patterns of activity in the brain's primary auditory cortex, indicating that it can distinguish between speech and non-speech.

The researchers also discovered that dogs' brains produced different activity patterns in the secondary auditory cortex, which analyzes complex sounds, when they listened to both familiar and unfamiliar language.

The greater the age of the dog, the greater the brain's distinction between the two languages.

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