Human and Dog Brains Both Have Dedicated "Voice Areas"

The video presents the first study to compare brain function between humans and any nonprimate animal. Scientists at MTA-ELTE Comparative Ethology Research Group in Hungary found that dogs and humans use similar neural mechanisms to process social information in voices. The fact that dogs can be trained to lie motionless during fMRI tests opens up the space for a new branch of comparative neuroscience. Check out the paper at: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/... Andics, A., Gácsi, M., Faragó, T., Kis, A., and Miklósi, A. (2014). Voice-Sensitive Regions in the Dog and Human Brain Are Revealed by Comparative fMRI. Current Biology. 24. For the best of Cell Press Videos, visit https://www.cell.com/video