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- Hungarian researchers led by Attila Andics showed companion dogs track consonant-patterned word rhythms better than vowel patterns.
- Dogs showed substantially larger neural synchronisation to consonant streams than to vowel or random streams.
- Human participants responded 25 % stronger to consonant patterns than vowel and 77 % stronger than random.
- Nick Enfield of University of Sydney cautioned findings may not apply to dogs without human speech exposure or tonal-language speakers.