Could dogs ever learn something like speech? A new review explores the science behind enhancing canine communication.

Imagine your dog telling you, "I want to play," or "I'm hungry," not through barks or body language, but by pressing a button that vocalizes these words. This scenario, once the realm of fantasy, is ...

For years, researchers have known that young children pick up words just by being around conversation. Toddlers do not need ...

Training dogs requires patience, consistency and using gestures or verbal commands, which canines understand through different tones, but new research found they might "listen in" on conversations ...

Anna Gabor and colleagues at the Hungarian Academy of Science recently published functional MRI (fMRI) studies of dog’s brains, showing that canines process human language pretty much the same way we ...

This is not comparable to word learning in children. By around age two, typical English-speaking children learn approximately ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Our dogs communicate with us all the time, not just with vocalization, but through canine body language like ...

Unfortunately for us, dogs can't speak English, but they are extremely fluent in body language. Your dog is watching you, and observing how you move through the world all the time. They know your ...