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- 1Dog brains split speech into consonants and vowels like ours●Dogs don't just hear our words; their brains split sound into consonants and vowels just like ours, revealing a deep evo
New research suggests dogs process human speech in a way far closer to humans than previously thought: their brains segment sounds into consonants and vowels rather than hearing words as uniform noise. The neural evidence points to an evolutionary kinship in speech processing, suggesting the capacity to break language into its smallest sound units is far older and more widespread among mammals than scientists assumed.