This study was focused on Gable, a five year old border collie. After a short period of training, Gable learned to associate the name of an object with its size, identifying other objects of similar size by the same name. After a longer period of exposure to both a name and an object, the dog learned to associate a word to other objects of similar textures, but not to objects of similar shape. This study shows for the first time that there is a qualitative difference in word comprehension in the dog compared to word comprehension in humans.
This article really interested me because it's amazing how dog's react to different things, and it was interesting to read about how they actually click the words they hear to what they actually think about.
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