Your dog understands what you tell him

It is now confirmed - your dog understands what you tell them .

Placing dogs in a MRI scanner , researchers from Hungary canine brain in the same way that the human brain reacts to sounds that are found .

Such as crying or laughing emotionally charged voice , perhaps explaining why the dogs are attuned to human emotions prompted similar responses .

Researchers in most species had the feeling of a common response . Feelings of their human owners of the dogs in this study significantly better tuning may be the first step toward understanding how .

The study " dog brain , like people , are sensitive to acoustic signals that feeling ," he says.

MRI brain scanner, 11 dogs trained scientists lay motionless . Something that had never been done before - that it's possible for both dog and human participants had to run on the same neuroimaging experiment .

Whining or crying or laughing, playful barking of the dog and the human voice range of about 200 when they both dogs ' and humans ' brain gain activities .

The images of the dog and the human brain , including in the areas of sound features .

That responds more strongly to other human beings , while the sound of wonder dogs react more strongly to other dogs .

The researchers also loaded the sound of the dog and the human brain processes emotional noted the striking similarities .

Both species , in an area near the primary auditory cortex lit up with the sound of happy than unhappy .

There were some differences : dogs , 48 % of all voice -sensitive brain regions other than the voices sound more robust response . That voice -sensitive brain regions, only 3% of the vocals sound more responsive versus non- vocal displays , including humans , are the opposite .

The findings of the noise produced at least 100 million years ago suggests that the last common ancestor of humans and dogs , the researchers say .

" Dogs and humans share the same social environment " in Hungary MTA - ELTE Comparative Ethology Research Group, says Attila Andics . " Our findings also uses methods of social information processing in the brain are similar to those suggested . Vocal communication between the two species successfulness of the base , " he added