A dog also hears it when his name sounds among all kinds

People can have a conversation at a busy party or in an office garden, filter out all the other talking as irrelevant, and noticing it if their name falls elsewhere. It Cocktail Party Effect Psychologists call that since the 1950s of the last century (that was before office gardens started on the rise). The phenomenon is of course not bound by parties or offices. Even babies Recognize their own name between further irrelevant cheese.

And, now show British and French researchers, dogs can too! In the scientific journal Animal Cognition to describe Researchers how they showed dozens of dogs from various breeds (and also without a race) four sound recordings from their boss, who was behind the speaker in the research room but did not look at the dog. The boss read on those recordings a text for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and said the name of the dog in two of the recordings and « come ». The boss had also recorded two recordings in ‘dog -oriented speech’ (extra high and clear) and two in a people -oriented voice. Dogs most often looked at their boss when they said their name and used dog -oriented speech and the least often often when the boss spoke people -oriented without nominating the dog by name. But the name of the dog also attracted his attention in people -oriented speech.

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