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

In Shany Dror's study, super-smart canines had 90% accuracy in fetching toys whose names they learned directly or overheard; ...

Gifted word learner dogs seem capable of eavesdropping about as well as 18-month-old toddlers, the study researchers say.

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

Toddlers can pick up new words just by overhearing conversations. Now, new research suggests that some intelligent dogs can ...

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

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