00:00 A study finds, dogs are able to understand that some words refer to objects in a way
00:05 that is similar to humans.
00:07 The study, which analyzed brain activity in 18 dogs, provides evidence that dogs can activate
00:12 a memory of an object when they hear its name.
00:15 The study was carried out at the Otvos Loran University in Budapest and published in the
00:19 journal Current Biology.
00:21 During the study, dog owners said words for objects their pets knew.
00:25 In some cases, they would present the dog with an object that matched the word, while
00:29 in other cases, the object didn't match.
00:31 The results find that the patterns in the dogs' brains when the words matched the objects
00:35 were different compared to when they didn't.
00:38 The researchers plan to examine if this ability to understand referential language is present
00:42 in other mammals as well.
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