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Boglárka Morvai

Biologist and postdoctoral researcher in the Neuroethology Research Group at ELTE's Department of Ethology.

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Dog brains follow consonants to find words in unbroken speech, as human brains do

ELTE researchers found dog brains tracked consonant-built nonsense words 42% more strongly than vowel-built ones, a bias previously seen only in humans. Every dog lived with Hungarian speakers, so the study cannot yet say whether hearing speech is what put the bias there.

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