We talk to the dogs. We call them by name, we ask them to go get the ball or sit down, we ask them if they are hungry or cold, we tell them how handsome they are and even, more than once, we use them as confessors. We constantly expose them to our talk. And in doing so, we have transformed them in an unexpected way: we have modified their brains in a way never seen in any other animal, except ourselves. Neuroscientists from the Department of Ethology at the University of Budapest have discovered that dogs, although they do not have human language, process speech in a way that is similar to ours in a very specific aspect: the preference for consonants... See More