Something’s off.A report describes an experiment in which 20 dogs heard uninterrupted recordings of invented three-syllable words while researchers measured electrical activity at their heads. The recordings contained no pauses marking word boundaries.
According to the report, the dogs’ brain signals aligned with recurring consonant-defined word patterns, but did not show an equally clear word-level response when vowels defined the patterns. That is the odd part: vowels were acoustically stronger, yet the reported response favored consonant patterns. The experiment did not test whether dogs understood meanings, and it cannot establish why the apparent preference occurred or show that dogs process speech exactly like humans.
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