Even though they are not needed to make the specific sounds, parts of Mandarin Chinese speakers' faces—their eyebrows and lips—mimic the rising and falling pitch that distinguishes one word spelled ...

"Pecas" is re-trained by the narcotics police department for search and rescue missions, at the police academy in Facatativa, near Bogota, Oct. 2, 2014. REUTERS/John Vizcaino Dogs are even smarter ...

We have all seen the folks who talk to their dogs like they are humans, not that anything is wrong with that. Each time I see someone talking to their dog, I always wonder if the dog actually ...

Dogs distinguish words and intonation in the same region of the brain as humans, according to a new study of how man's best friend interprets our language. Published Monday in the journal Science, the ...

YOU might want to make sure your pooch is out of earshot next time you make a comment about his dodgy doggie breath. New research shows dogs can understand not just the intonation and delivery of what ...

Study finds that dogs process speech in a similar way to humans, and that what you say and how you say it both matter when conversing with canines It is both what you say and the way that you say it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dogs, like humans, use the brain's left hemisphere to interpret words and regions of the right hemisphere to analyze intonation ...