Scientists have found evidence to support what many dog owners have long believed: man's best friend really does understand some of what we're saying. Researchers in Hungary scanned the brains of dogs as they were listening to their trainer speaking to determine which parts of the brain they were using. They found that dogs processed words with the left hemisphere, while intonation was processed with the right hemisphere — just like humans. Brain language abilities not uniquely human"The neural capacities to process words that were thought by many to be uniquely human are actually shared with other species," he said. While other species probably also have the mental ability to understand language like dogs do, their lack of interest in human speech makes it difficult to test, said Andics.

Source: CBC News August 30, 2016 13:41 UTC