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

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

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

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

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

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

Spelling F-O-O-D or O-U-T might only get you so far around your dog if he or she is considered a Gifted Word Learner (GWL).