A Dog's Signs: How Dogs Can Sense Their Emotions

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This experiment revealed something intriguing about a dog’s ability to recognise vocal noises. The dogs showed different responses based on the sounds they heard, whether happy or sad. When they listened to happy sounds, such as their owner laughing, they showed signs of excitement such as the fast wagging of their tail and barking. When they listened to sad sounds, such as their owner crying, they showed signs of sadness such as moaning or whining and the dropping of their tails and ears.
A new fMRI research was done that showed that dogs’ brains are able to process human voices, and then react differently based on our emotions. A group of researchers from Eotvos Lorand University in Hungary conducted an experiment using fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) technology. FMRI can track where blood is flowing to various parts of …show more content…
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Dogs definitely do respond to emotions, partically sadness.
In study published in the journal “Animal Cognition”, researchers found that a dog was more likely to approach someone who was crying than someone who was talking. They also found that dogs respond to weeping with submissive behaviour. This matches the results obtained in my experiment where the owner’s dogs went to them when they cried, and the experiment I did with the cell phone in the bedroom.
Evidence from numerous tests and experiments that other researchers have done and experiments I have done, shows that dogs can in fact tell when you are sad. They can tell by the way you speak and by your physical actions.
When you hear your friend’s voice, you immediately picture them, even if you can’t see them. And from the tone of their speech you can immediately tell if they’re happy or sad. You can do all of this because your human brain has a voice area. Now scientists have discovered that dogs too have voice areas. This explains how canines can be so attuned to their owner’s
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