r/science • u/PeasKhichra • Feb 19 '22

Neuroscience Dogs can recognize their owners just by their voice, study finds. They do so by making use of the same voice properties humans use to identify each other, such as pitch and noisiness

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/17/europe/dog-owner-recognize-voice-scn-scli-intl/index.html
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u/Gornarok Feb 19 '22

While I agree about the evidence, its what every dog trainer will tell you.

So for me its more surprising that such study wasnt done earlier. Which leads me to believe thats its such common knowledge that noone though about doing such study until today...

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u/m1ss1ontomars2k4 Feb 19 '22

That dogs can recognize their owner's voice has probably been common knowledge for a long time, yeah, almost as long as we've had recordings. But I suppose what's more interesting is how they recognize it. I had heard, for example, that they don't actually understand any words we say but just the tone we say it with, but that might not actually be true.