Could dogs ever learn something like speech? A new review explores the science behind enhancing canine communication.

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

Imagine your dog telling you, "I want to play," or "I'm hungry," not through barks or body language, but by pressing a button that vocalizes these words. This scenario, once the realm of fantasy, is ...

According to researchers at Hungary’s Eötvös Loránd University, a very small subset of dogs can go “much further” than just ...

Anna Gabor and colleagues at the Hungarian Academy of Science recently published functional MRI (fMRI) studies of dog’s brains, showing that canines process human language pretty much the same way we ...

Unfortunately for us, dogs can't speak English, but they are extremely fluent in body language. Your dog is watching you, and observing how you move through the world all the time. They know your ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Our dogs communicate with us all the time, not just with vocalization, but through canine body language like ...