[Liz]

Article on an upcoming Hungarian paper (I think).

"The results show that dog brains, just like human brains, process speech hierarchically: intonation at lower stages (mostly in subcortical regions), while known words at higher stages (in cortical regions). Interestingly, older dogs distinguished words less than younger dogs."

 

[Dianaleez]

Could that be a function of hearing being less acute? and perhaps comprehension slowed?

 

[Liz]

Could be. There might be a discussion in the actual paper. Not sure how they're identifying older/younger.