Sit, stay, down, no, don't eat that, drop it. Dogs. We pet them, we love them, we talk to them. But are they listening?
Of course they are. ______（填一句话。）________
The study used a method commonly deployed on babies: tracking eye movements. If the baby, or in this case the dog, looks at something, it’s assumed that they're interested in it.
The researchers showed dogs two videos. In one, a person looks into the camera and says "hi dog!" in a high-pitched voice before turning towards a plastic pot. In the other, the person avoids eye contact and says “hi dog” in a lower voice before turning towards the pot.
And the dogs looked at the pot more often after the "hi dog!" than after the “hi dog.” Meaning the animated delivery style cues the dogs of an intension to communicate. Dogs thus perceive such intent similarly to babies. Except babies are slightly less likely to dig up the flowers in that plastic pot.
And recent research found that dogs are paying attention not only to what we say, but to how we say it.
坐下！停下！下来！不！不要吃那个！放下它！狗狗们，我们宠它们，我们爱它们，我们向它们吐槽。但是不是对“狗”弹琴了呢？ 不，它们当然会听你碎碎念。最近的研究发现狗狗不光听我们念叨啥，还关注我们是怎么跟它们吐槽的。 这项研究使用的眼球移动追踪大法，通常用于研究婴儿。如果婴儿，当然在这里是狗狗，看着啥东西，即认为它们对啥感兴趣。 研究者给狗狗看了两段视频。一段中，那个人看着摄像头用高音调说：“你好啊！旺财！”，然后转头面向一个塑料盆。在另一段视频中，那人不看摄像头、用低沉的声音说：“你好啊！旺财！”，然后也转头面向一个塑料盆。 比起看了后一段视频的狗狗，看了前一段视频的狗狗看那个塑料盆的频率更高。这就说明活泼生动的交流方式能提示小狗：你想跟它交流。因此，狗狗在这方面的感知能力跟婴儿是类似的。只是，婴儿貌似是不会把塑料盆里的花给挖出来。