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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2023-08-01
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Series: | Communications Biology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05217-y |