Dog brains are sensitive to infant- and dog-directed prosody

Abstract When addressing preverbal infants and family dogs, people tend to use specific speech styles. While recent studies suggest acoustic parallels between infant- and dog-directed speech, it is unclear whether dogs, like infants, show enhanced neural sensitivity to prosodic aspects of speech dir...

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Main Authors: Anna Gergely, Anna Gábor, Márta Gácsi, Anna Kis, Kálmán Czeibert, József Topál, Attila Andics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-08-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05217-y