12/30/2023 0 Comments Puppies love to play timed reading![]() With the human, they spoke in their normal voice. The researchers found that women used the higher-pitched, sing-song baby-talk tone when reading the passages to the photos, making their voices 21 percent higher when reading to the puppy images. The volunteers also read the doggie praise to a human. ![]() The study’s researchers had 30 female volunteers look at photographs of dogs while reading standard dog-directed phrases, like “Who’s a good boy?” and “Hello cutie!” (they didn't use real dogs to minimize the speakers going off script). Older dogs, however, aren’t super impressed, reports Virginia Morell at Science. The study, published this week in the Proceedings of Royal Society B, shows that the baby-talk, also known as dog-directed speech, gets a big response from puppies. And a new study suggests that our canines respond to such dulcet tones-well, puppies do at least. Anyone who has lived with a dog will find themselves occasionally cooing to their pup in slow-paced, high-pitched baby talk (OK, maybe most of the time). ![]()
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