New research suggests prodigious pups that already have large vocabularies can learn new words by listening in on their ...

Some dogs can learn new object names by overhearing human conversation, highlighting advanced learning skills also seen in ...

According to the team, these findings suggest a dog’s ability to learn from overheard speech may rely on brain mechanisms ...

These “Gifted Word Learner” (GWL) dogs can learn names for objects by overhearing exchanges between members of their human ...

The second occurred in the “overhearing” condition, where the dog watched as the primary caretaker talked to another family ...

Overall, the gifted dogs performed just as well when learning from overheard speech, as when they were directly taught.