{"id":675331,"date":"2020-12-08T20:00:01","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T00:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=675331"},"modified":"2020-12-08T20:00:01","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T00:00:01","slug":"dogs-may-never-learn-that-every-sound-of-a-word-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=675331","title":{"rendered":"Dogs may never learn that every sound of a word matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite their excellent auditory capacities, dogs do not attend to differences between words that differ only in one phoneme (e.g., &#8220;dog&#8221; vs &#8220;dig&#8221;), according to a new study by Hungarian researchers of the E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University, Budapest (ELTE). In the study, they measured brain activity with non-invasive electroencephalography (EEG) on conscious dogs. This might be a reason why the number of words dogs learn to recognize typically remains low throughout their life. The study is published in Royal Society Open Science.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-12-dogs-word.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Dogs may never learn that every sound of a word matters<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite their excellent auditory capacities, dogs do not attend to differences between words that differ only in one phoneme (e.g., &#8220;dog&#8221; vs &#8220;dig&#8221;), according to a new study by Hungarian&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=675331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=675331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=675331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=675331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}