Related Content What fMRI Can Tell Us About the Thoughts and Minds of Dogs.
Recently, they've experimented with playing different sounds to the dogs while they lie in the scanner.
Of course, it's unclear what's exactly going on in the dogs' minds when they hear these noises, but this suggests that dogs can distinguish a happy voice from a sad one.
"We think this might be able to explain what makes vocal communication between the two species so effortless and successful.".
The researchers also found that different areas of the dogs' brains showed activity in response to hearing each category of sound.
Seeing a correlation between an external stimulus and a certain type of brain activity doesn't enable us to fully understand dog cognition.
"It makes us wonder what aspects of so-called 'language skills' are not so human-specific after all, but are also there in other species. »
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