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

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

Clever canines that have a unique talent for learning a vocabulary of toy names can pick up new words by simply overhearing their handlers’ conversations, say scientists. Parents and dog owners know ...

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

If you've ever had to spell out words like W-A-L-K or T-R-E-A-T around a dog, you know that some dogs listen in to humans' chitchat and can pick out certain key words. Well, it turns out that some ...

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

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 ...

Typical family dogs can understand action words such as ‘sit’, but not words that describe objects. Shany Dror at the ...

Human toddlers pick up new words by a variety of mechanisms, including by eavesdropping on adults. Prior research has shown that GWL dogs can learn many different toy names just by playing with their ...