NEWS 3 - Dogs understand it all

The Researchers have long argued that most dogs respond to human emotion in words, and not the actual meaning of words. But now a scientist has demonstrated otherwise. In fact, researcher Victoria Radcliffe of the University of Sussex in England has revealed that dogs respond to  both emotion and meaning when their humans speak.

To prove it she sent identical commands through speakers on either side of a dog's head. Then she manipulated the messages, in some cases removing all emotion from a command, in others turning the words into gibberish. When dogs heard commands with meaningful words, about 80 percent of them turned to the right. When they heard commands with just emotional cues, most dogs turned to the left.

The experiment shows that dogs can differentiate between actual words and gibberish, notes Radcliffe, because when the words didn't make sense, they sought out emotional cues. It also indicates that dogs process speech into two parts and use different hemispheres of the brain to determine either emotional cues or the meaning of words, a bit like humans. 

A neurobiologist of the MTA-ELTE Comparative Ethology Research Group in Budapest indics than we must tell all the emotional things to the dog in his left ear and for commands that you want a dog to get clearly and precisely, in the right ear.

OPINION

Dogs are my favourite animal, mareover I've one dog since I was 5 and I still love ir. For this reason I'm glad to know this news, I shall practice the neurobiologist's advices and I will talk it more and I will check if what he said is actual