Cats can associate human words with images—possibly better than human babies—new research out of Japan reveals.
Common house cats possess the ability to associate human words with images without prompting or reward, new research conducted by animal scientists at Azabu University in Japan has revealed.This discovery, published in the journal Scientific Reports, sheds new light on feline cognitive abilities and their potential for understanding human language.'Human infants rapidly learned arbitrary associations between words and objects at a young age,' the authors wrote.
This behavior suggests that the cats had formed associations between the spoken words and the images they saw, even without any rewards or training.'It is noteworthy that cats made the picture-word association after only brief exposure,' the authors said. 'Most cats habituated to the stimulus pairing after four trials, which means that they received only nine second exposures in two trials for each picture-word pair.
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