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

Gifted word learner dogs seem capable of eavesdropping about as well as 18-month-old toddlers, the study researchers say.

These “Gifted Word Learner” (GWL) dogs can learn names for objects by overhearing exchanges between members of their human ...

Toddlers can pick up new words just by overhearing conversations. Now, new research suggests that some intelligent dogs can ...

According to the team, these findings suggest a dog’s ability to learn from overheard speech may rely on brain mechanisms ...

Overall, the gifted dogs performed just as well when learning from overheard speech, as when they were directly taught.

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).

Dogs can understand that certain words refer to specific objects, according to a recent study, suggesting that they may understand words in a similar way to humans. It offers the first evidence of ...

The Department of Defense and National Institutes of Health (NIH) are still collaborating on research with a Beijing lab for ...

Researchers at the Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center in Richmond have induced heart attacks in dogs, surgically implanted pacemakers into them and trained them to run on treadmills, all in the ...