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

Wearing headsets, 18 subjects lay quietly while a functional magnetic resonance imaging machine (fMRI) droned on around their heads. They listened as a female voice recited a famous line from a ...

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

The research suggests that dogs have the neurological capacity to eavesdrop and learn new words when they hear humans talking ...

We live in a sea of constant sounds and noises. Some are meaningful and some are not. However, it seems as though we have a remarkable ability to discriminate human speech from all of those other ...

I'm not sure if I want dogs to talk.

There is no doubt that dogs can learn that words spoken by humans may contain instructions for certain behaviors that they are requested to do. You tell Lassie to sit or come and she sits or ambles to ...

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 ...