Neural evidence that dogs segment the speech they hear with a humanlike consonant bias

Boglárka Morvai; Kinga G. Tóth; Marianna Boros; Dorottya S Rácz; Ivaylo Borislavov Iotchev; Kitti Szabó; Attila Andics

doi:10.1126/science.adw7709

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Neural evidence that dogs segment the speech they hear with a humanlike consonant bias

Boglárka Morvai, Kinga G. Tóth, Marianna Boros, Dorottya S Rácz, Ivaylo Borislavov Iotchev, Kitti Szabó, Attila Andics

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This suggests that dogs, similar to humans, exhibit consonant bias when segmenting the speech they hear.

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Appeared: Saturday, September 26. Science. Peer-reviewed journal.

DOI: 10.1126/science.adw7709

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