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Their Masters' Voices: Dogs Understand Tone And Meaning Of Words
NPR ^ | Aug. 30. 2016 | Nell Greenfieldboyce

Posted on 08/30/2016 5:57:12 PM PDT by Innovative

When you praise a dog, it's listening not just to the words you say but also how you say them.

That might not be huge news to dog owners. But now scientists have explored this phenomenon by using an imaging machine to peek inside the brains of 13 dogs as they listened to their trainer's voice.

The reward pathway in the dogs' brains lit up when they heard both praising words and an approving intonation — but not when they heard random words spoken in a praising tone or praise words spoken in a flat tone, according to a report in the journal Science.

"Dogs process both what we say and how we say it in a way which is amazingly similar to how human brains do," says Attila Andics, a neuroscientist at Eotvos Lorand University in Hungary.

(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...


TOPICS: Pets/Animals; Science
KEYWORDS: doggieping; dogs
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To: Salamander

They are called hots?


41 posted on 08/31/2016 1:18:25 AM PDT by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: Ditter

Slang for venomous, yes.


42 posted on 08/31/2016 1:30:40 AM PDT by Salamander (I ride by night, and I travel in fear, that in this darkness, I will disappear...)
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To: Lucas McCain

43 posted on 08/31/2016 1:31:55 AM PDT by Salamander (I ride by night, and I travel in fear, that in this darkness, I will disappear...)
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To: Salamander

Glad to know you don’t have any hots!


44 posted on 08/31/2016 1:33:25 AM PDT by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: Ditter

Even if they were legal to keep, here, I would not have the time or patience for the training necessary to keep them.

Besides, what fun is a snake I can’t snuggle?


45 posted on 08/31/2016 1:35:40 AM PDT by Salamander (I ride by night, and I travel in fear, that in this darkness, I will disappear...)
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To: Salamander

Exactly! : (


46 posted on 08/31/2016 1:38:26 AM PDT by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: Ditter

Some keep them as a means to promote an endangered species, others, for the sake of venom extraction and fewer, just because they like them.

*shrug*

I like my toy snakes just fine.


47 posted on 08/31/2016 2:00:11 AM PDT by Salamander (I ride by night, and I travel in fear, that in this darkness, I will disappear...)
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To: wardaddy

Man ..... separated at the hip....:o)

Diet DP in a yeti mug, Trifecta Cummins Diesel, and a very smart Rott. Gonna have to wake Girl Friday to achieve that “bodonkadonk” thang. I’m out of the house at oh early thirty every day. ..... She’d hurt me....:o)

Well treated, trained / disciplined pups that you interact with all day long and care for like family . They belong.

Stay Safe WD !


48 posted on 08/31/2016 3:17:33 AM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Innovative

Well, my dogs can tell time. The know when it is time to be fed.


49 posted on 08/31/2016 5:29:56 AM PDT by ops33 (Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
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To: meowmeow
lol I got a rescue cat that is beautiful, loving and wants to bite my hand if it goes near her belly when she is on her back...my son came over yesterday with s quarter pounder from McDonald....he tossed her a little piece of meat, she smelled it, stuck her nose in the air and walked away...son did not appreciate her attitude....nose in the air was an insult to him...
50 posted on 08/31/2016 10:43:26 AM PDT by goat granny
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To: Daffynition; Drumbo; Salamander

That pic is freakin hilarious!

Fun thread. And who knew snakes love to ride motorcycles? Das cool right dere.


51 posted on 09/01/2016 12:35:01 AM PDT by Titan Magroyne (What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.)
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To: Salamander

My kitty clearly understands the difference between my work clothes and around town clothes, even when there’s some crossover, such as wearing a pair of work khakis and my boots paired with an ordinary t-shirt or polo to go to the store or rehearsal.


52 posted on 09/03/2016 6:10:01 PM PDT by Fire_on_High (RIP City of Heroes and Paragon Studios, victim of the Obamaconomy.)
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To: Salamander

My kitty clearly understands the difference between my work clothes and around town clothes, even when there’s some crossover, such as wearing a pair of work khakis and my boots paired with an ordinary t-shirt or polo to go to the store or rehearsal.


53 posted on 09/03/2016 6:10:02 PM PDT by Fire_on_High (RIP City of Heroes and Paragon Studios, victim of the Obamaconomy.)
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To: Fightin Whitey

Huck Finn’s Wisdom on How to Talk to Animals...and the French:

Why, Huck, doan de French people talk de same way we does?”

“No, Jim; you couldn’t understand a word they said — not a single word.”

“Well, now, I be ding-busted! How do dat come?”

“I don’t know; but it’s so. I got some of their jabber out of a book. Spose a man was to come to you and say Polly-voo-franzy — what would you think?”

“I wouldn’ think nuff’n; I’d take en bust him over de head — dat is, if he warn’t white. I wouldn’t ’low no nigger to call me dat.”

“Shucks, it ain’t calling you anything. It’s only saying, do you know how to talk French.”

“Well, den, why couldn’t he say it?”

“Why, he is a-saying it. That’s a Frenchman’s way of saying it.”

“Well, it’s a blame’ ridicklous way, en I doan’ want to hear no mo’ ’bout it. Dey ain’ no sense in it.”

“Looky here, Jim, does a cat talk like we do?”

“No, a cat don’t.”

“Well, does a cow?”

“No, a cow don’t, nuther.”

“Does a cat talk like a cow, or a cow talk like a cat?”

“No, dey don’t.”

“It’s natural and right for ’em to talk different from each other, ain’t it?”

“ ’Course.”

“And ain’t it natural and right for a cat and a cow to talk different from us?”

“Why, mos’ sholy it is.”

“Well, then, why ain’t it natural and right for a Frenchman to talk different from us? — you answer me that.”

“Is a cat a man, Huck?”

“No.”

“Well, den, dey ain’t no sense in a cat talkin’ like a man. Is a cow a man? — er is a cow a cat?”

“No, she ain’t either of them.”

“Well, den, she ain’t got no business to talk like either one er the yuther of ’em. Is a Frenchman a man?”

“Yes.”

“Well, den! Dad blame it, why doan’ he talk like a man? — you answer me dat!”

I see it warn’t no use wasting words — you can’t learn a nigger to argue. So I quit.


54 posted on 09/03/2016 6:31:24 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: JPJones

Mine understands “she” as it pertains to her. He comes running when she hears it.

But she hasn’t learned to read yet.


55 posted on 09/03/2016 7:07:17 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Vote Against Oppressive Humidity!)
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