Could dogs ever learn something like speech? A new review explores the science behind enhancing canine communication.

Imagine your dog telling you, "I want to play," or "I'm hungry," not through barks or body language, but by pressing a button that vocalizes these words. This scenario, once the realm of fantasy, is ...

There's a few special words that will perk the ears of many a dog -- hungry, park, and of course T-R-E-A-T. But a choice group of gifted canines appear to have remarkable capacity for learning human ...

This is not comparable to word learning in children. By around age two, typical English-speaking children learn approximately ...

Anna Gabor and colleagues at the Hungarian Academy of Science recently published functional MRI (fMRI) studies of dog’s brains, showing that canines process human language pretty much the same way we ...

Unfortunately for us, dogs can't speak English, but they are extremely fluent in body language. Your dog is watching you, and observing how you move through the world all the time. They know your ...

Training dogs requires patience, consistency and using gestures or verbal commands, which canines understand through different tones, but new research found they might "listen in" on conversations ...

Some days, it feels like dogs can read our minds. They nuzzle us when we’re sad or grab a toy to throw for them when they see we're bored. Other days, the language barrier between our species is ...