By following the eye movements of dogs, we were able to get a firsthand look at how their minds are actually working, Topal says.
In a second video meant to test more complex communication signals understood by adults, the woman keeps her head down while talking to the dog and says, Hi dog, in a low-pitched voice.
They claim that our four-legged friends react similar to a 6 1/2-month-oldinntwhen theyre being spoken to or when given direct eye contact.
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This makes dogs good at reading peoples communication intent and responding to their nonverbal gestures, such as turning a head in the direction of an object.
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Following Dogs Eyes
The researchers suggest their results show striking similarities between the gaze-following behaviors of adult pet dogs and preverbal innts in response to human communication signals.
We tell him when he gets chicken rice, and he stands by my dad as he makes it for him, he knows where his pot is to make it in.
Annie (the dog)
In both situations, after giving a verbal cue to the dog, the woman turns her head to look in the direction of one of the flower pots. Researchers measured whether or not the dogs looked to the same side as the woman and how long they stared at the woman who spoke to them.
The study is published online in the journalCurrent Biology.
One of the videos shows a woman standing at a table with two plastic flower pots placed on either side of her. At first, the woman holds her head down, then she raises it and looks directly at the dog and says, Hi dog, in a high-pitched voice. This test revealed whether dogs were sensitive to the same cues as innts.
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(WebMD)A new study may confirm what many dog owners already know.
Our findings reveal that dogs are receptive to human communications in a manner that was previously attributed only to human innts, says Jozsef Topal, PhD, a senior researcher on the comparative behavior research team at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest.
Dogs may pick up on human intent nonverbal cues,Dogs receptivity to human communication is surprisingly similar to the receptivity of very young children, the researchers say in a news release.
For the study, the first to use eye-tracking software on mans best friend, 29 dogs were placed in front of video recordings.
He his head everytime I talk to him, and I can see it in his eyes he knows what I am saying.
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Dogs not only get the meaning of some words like treat and go outside. They can also follow a personseyemovements and pick up on nonverbal signals, a new study suggests.
Hard to believe that they are just picking up on this. Dogs are extremely smart when it comes to picking up on body language. My own dog amazes me on how she can interpret what I say to her. She seems to understand emotional gestures and can sense my feelings very well. She knows when Im sad or happy or mad. Amazing to me.
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They compared the dogs reactions to a comparison situation in which the dogs received no eye contact from the woman and no Hi dog address from her.
please come to my house and look at my dog. My dog understands everything I tell him. He is a fox terrier 9 years old.
I kame on this storie and wread it 2 tymes b4 skratching my ear and thyinking u 2 legged humans r sooo dumb 2 not no this already.
The study shows that dogs looked at the screen longer when they had eye contact from the woman and were directly addressed -- as in the first example where the woman showed a stronger attempt to communicatnonverbal cuese -- and they also were more likely to follow her head movement..
He knows bye-bye, look outside, treat, and he picks up on what room is which.
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I also just said to my dog sitting on the couch next to my dad pepper want to go to bed...He strectched, got down off the couch and went to my room. Now if thats not smart, I dont know what is.
