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1/6 After lived happily in Mexico, Kun-kun moved to Budapest.
Do you think he noticed that Hungarian and Spanish sound different?
After all, we never teach our dogs how their “native” language sounds. But we neither teach it to babies, and they know, isn’t it? #AnimBehav2021
Do you think he noticed that Hungarian and Spanish sound different? After all, we never teach our dogs how their “native” language sounds. But we neither teach it to babies, and they know, isn’t it? #AnimBehav2021
2/6 To test the dog’s neural sensitivity to language, 18 dogs listened to The Little Prince in Spanish and Hungarian (yes, the fox’s chapter). 
As controls, we scrambled the audios to keep their acoustic properties but without sound like speech. 
#AnimBehav2021
As controls, we scrambled the audios to keep their acoustic properties but without sound like speech. #AnimBehav2021
3/6 I forgot to tell you that besides being a good boy, Kun-kun (and many family dogs worldwide) helps Neuroscience. 
After training, they can voluntarily remain still inside an MRI while, for example, listen to The Little Prince. 
#AnimBehav2021
After training, they can voluntarily remain still inside an MRI while, for example, listen to The Little Prince. #AnimBehav2021
4/6 Using #MVPA, we found that the primary auditory cortex discriminates between speech and scrambled stimuli, independently of language. While the secondary auditory regions discriminate between both languages but not between the scramble stimuli ones. 
#AnimBehav2021
#AnimBehav2021
5/6 We suggest that dogs’ brains detected the naturalness of our stimuli. Dogs learned the regularities that characterize a language -how their familiar language sounds- Our results support that speech processing is functionally organized in the dog auditory cortex #AnimBehav2021
6/6 Be careful when you share top secrets close to your dog; they pay attention to your words.
We thank our participants and their families.
#AnimBehav2021.
By the way, Kun-kun also is happy in Budapest, cooperating with @FamDogProject.
We thank our participants and their families.
#AnimBehav2021. By the way, Kun-kun also is happy in Budapest, cooperating with @FamDogProject.
