Set in Harjo’s hometown of Tulsa, “The Lowdown” tracks Lee as he tries to parent his teenage daughter, Francis (Ryan Kiera ...

Everybody knows that dogs can learn to associate specific spoken words with objects that look a certain way. A groundbreaking ...

Dogs with a vocabulary of toy names can extend learned labels to entirely new objects, ELTE reasearchers found.

It’s a mental trick called “label extension.” Humans use it when we realize a hammer and a rock can both drive a nail, or that a mug and a glass both count as “cups.” ...

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Gifted dogs can extend word labels to toys by their use, not looks. They learn naturally through play, showing natural mental skills.

A new study demonstrates that some highly gifted dogs can categorize objects not just by appearance, but by how they are used ...

As infants, humans naturally learn new words and their associations—like the fact that forks are related to bowls because ...

In a series of playful interactions with their owners, dogs with a vocabulary of toy names - known as "Gifted Word Learner" ...

A new study shows that gifted word learner dogs extend verbal labels to new objects based on functional similarity and form ...

For the study, owners of 10 talented dogs —mostly border collies—taught them words for two categories: tug toys, called pulls ...

Dogs that easily learn the names of toys might also mentally sort them by function, a new example of complex cognitive activity in the canine brain.