Hungarian research shows how dogs understand what we say AND how we say it

A groundbreaking study to investigate how dog brains process speech has revealed canines care about both what we say and how we say it. It discovered that dogs, like people, use the left hemisphere to process words, and the right hemisphere brain region to process intonation. It found praise activates dog's reward centre only when both words and intonation match, according to the new study in Science. Trained dogs around the fMRI scanner used in the study: Dogs, like people, use the left hemisphere to process words, and the right hemisphere brain region to process intonation, according to the new study in Science. The brain activation images showed that dogs prefer to use their left hemisphere to process meaningful but not meaningless words.