Dogs register that they are being praised only if the words and intonation match, lighting up both brain areas. This appears to confirm what many dog owners have long believed: Man's best friend ...

Lots of dog owners love to gaze at their pups’ faces. But that fascination may be a one-way street, at least in the brain. Dogs’ brains aren’t especially impressed by faces, either those of ...

Dogs also pay a good deal of attention to human faces, and I'm pleased to inform you about a new study, available online, that has discovered the parts of the dog's brain that are responsible for ...

Once the dogs were trained, the researchers put earphones on each dog and then let them listen to three types of sounds. The first were environmental noises (car sounds, phone ringing, whistles etc.).

"Dog brains, like human brains, can distinguish between speech and non-speech," Dr. Laura Cuaya, the first author of the new study, said of her team's findings Dogs are "bilingual" and can ...

Brain games for your dog include puzzle feeders and toys, scatter and sniff games, stuffed food toys, and destruction games. Try playing brain games at mealtime if they’re motivated by food.

An owner’s scent activates the parts of a dog‘s brain associated with pleasure, a new brain-imaging study says. By Liz Langley. March 24, 2014 ...

What part of the brain represents humans and other dogs? It could be sound, or scent, or any of those modalities," Berns said. Dog empathy, and how it compares to the human version, is another ...

The study also suggests that a dog's brain breaks up speech into two parts: the emotional cues and the meaning of the words. Then it processes these two components on opposite sides of the brain: ...

The research showed dogs use similar parts of the brain to process numerical quantities. However, the neural processes weren't exactly the same.

Like their owners, dogs can have mental decline. Medications can help slow this decline, and a study says mental stimulation could also improve brain health.