ReviewBiologia futura2025
Do dogs understand?-Contrasting anecdotal reports, neuroimaging, and behavioural evidence on language comprehension.
Review in Biologia futura, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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1 citing paper in PubMed.
- Haptic Signals as a Communication Tool Between Handlers and Dogs: Review of a New Field.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Review
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Abstract
Dogs are the earliest domesticated species which still live alongside humans in unprecedented numbers. While various aspects of their socio-cognition have been shown to have adapted to the human environment during domestication, evidence on language comprehension is contradicting and inconclusive. In this review article, in an attempt to answer the hypothetical question: "Do dogs understand human language?" I try to summarize all recent behavioural, neurocognitive, as well as anecdotal reports we have on language comprehension in dogs. I assess the contradictions, suggest a set of possible explanations, and propose a new, systematic and more naturalistic approach to consolidate anecdotal and neuroimaging evidence with behavioural evidence.
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