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Great Listeners
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Dogs make great listeners. And that may be because both man and man's best friend use analogous brain regions to process the voices. Researchers almost 200 sound samples, including human and canine , as well as environmental noises and silence. They played these clips to 22 people and 11 dogs while the subjects' brains were functional MRI scans. Human brains tuned in most to vocal sounds. Dog brains were most sensitive to environmental noises. But they still had a lot in common. A dedicated brain area reacted to the vocalisations of their species. That area also to the voices of other species. Meanwhile, a different brain region noted emotion in a voice, with a strong response to cheery sounds like laughter and a weaker reaction to unhappy noises. The study is in the journal Current Biology.
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