What do infants know? How does the knowledge that they begin with prepare them for
learning about the particular physical, cultural, and social world in which they live? Answers …

In this review we focus on the exciting new opportunities in comparative neuroscience to
study neural processes of vocal social perception by comparing dog and human neural …

Human cognition is believed to be unique in part because of early-emerging social skills for
cooperative communication. 1 Comparative studies show that at 2.5 years old, children …

Given the range of tasks that requires dogs and humans to work effectively together, it is
important for us to appreciate the similarities and differences in hearing ability across the two …

While our understanding of adult dog cognition has grown considerably over the past 20
years, relatively little is known about the ontogeny of dog cognition. To assess the …

Highlights•We assessed cognitive and temperament traits in 8-to 10-week-old
puppies.•Puppies reliably used cooperative-communicative gestures.•Puppies differentiated …

When addressing preverbal infants and family dogs, people tend to use specific speech
styles. While recent studies suggest acoustic parallels between infant-and dog-directed …

In contemporary western cultures, most humans talk to their pet companions. Speech
register addressed to companion animals shares common features with speech addressed …

Pet-directed speech (PDS) is a type of speech humans spontaneously use with their
companion animals. It is very similar to speech commonly used when talking to babies. A …

Humans have evolved voluntary control over vocal production for speaking and singing,
while preserving the phylogenetically older system of spontaneous nonverbal vocalizations …