Dogs understand words as we do 

Researchers at Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary find a human N400-like semantic mismatch effect in dogs’ ERPs to objects primed with matching or mismatching object words, revealing that object words can evoke mental representations of the referred objects in dogs. The referential understanding of object words is thus not a distinctive feature of the human language faculty. (ez az eTOC blurb) See more: Boros, Magyari et al. (2024) Neural evidence for referential understanding of object words in dogs, doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.02.029