在这项研究中，研究人员证明了一小群有天赋的单词学习犬，它们拥有大量的物体标签词汇，可以通过偷听主人的互动来学习新的标签。
此外，研究团队表明，即使标签和对象没有同时出现，这些狗也能获得新的对象-标签映射。综上所述，这些结果表明，具有语言学习天赋的狗拥有与18个月大的孩子相似的社会认知技能。
据悉，18个月大的孩子可以通过无意中听到第三方的互动来获得新单词。在非人类物种中证明类似的学习过程将表明，支持这一过程的社会认知技能不仅属于人类，也可能在其他物种中进化或发展，这为语言相关认知的起源提供了有价值的见解。
附：英文原文
Title: Dogs with a large vocabulary of object labels learn new labels by overhearing like 1.5-year-old infants
Author: Shany Dror, ádám Miklósi, Boglárka Morvai, Andreea-Silvia Nstase, Claudia Fugazza
Issue&Volume: 2026-01-08
Abstract: Children as young as 18 months can acquire novel words by overhearing third-party interactions. Demonstrating similar learning processes in nonhuman species would indicate that the social-cognitive skills supporting this process are not exclusively human but may have evolved, or can develop, in other species, offering valuable insights into the origins of language-related cognition. In this study, we demonstrated that a small group of Gifted Word Learner dogs, which possess an extensive vocabulary of object labels, can learn new labels by overhearing their owners’ interactions. Moreover, we show that these dogs can acquire novel object-label mappings even when the labels and objects are not presented simultaneously. Taken together, these results suggest that Gifted Word Learner dogs possess sociocognitive skills functionally parallel to those of 18-month-old children.
DOI: adq5474
Source: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq5474