Study described as ‘necessary first step’ in discovering whether dogs and humans can use push-button devices to communicate
  • Lemminary@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    The study doesn’t suggest anything specific about soundboards. It only focuses on dogs’ responses to prerecorded words vs spoken commands which shouldn’t surprise anyone as there’s no new ground being covered. The only news here is that scientists are barely starting into this branch of research, which this article should’ve focused on instead of this trivial study.

    • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I added the link to the study in the post body, since the article didn’t link to it. Again, this particular study didn’t provide any evidence that it’s possible, but they raised the possibly and backed it with non-controlled citizen data. Hence, a need for a controlled study to confirm that possibility.

      • Lemminary@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Thanks for the link!

        In order to determine whether dogs’ performance at word comprehension is reflected in their button pressing, carefully controlled future studies must investigate whether dogs can spontaneously produce contextually appropriate button presses in experimentally induced situations [to] establish the extent to which AIC devices can be used for two-way interspecies communication

        Now that would be interesting.