Orienting Asymmetries in Dogs’ Responses to Speech

Orienting Asymmetries in Dogs’ Responses to Speech - This video from Victoria Ratcliffe and David Reby reports the results of an experiment showing that dogs express opposite orienting biases when exposed to human speech signals where the salience of different types of information (verbal versus nonverbal) has been artificially modified. This suggests that dogs have hemispheric specializations for processing the different communicative components of speech. The fact that these biases closely par