(CNN)Do you ever wonder whether Fido really understands what you're saying? He might be catching on to more than you think -- and your intonation when saying certain words is just as important to him ...

Man’s best friend may have more in common with his or her human owners than previously thought. For the past two years, neuroscientist Gregory Berns of Emory University has been conducting a series of ...

New research has revealed that dogs’ brains are not wired to focus on human faces. The researchers used 30 humans and 20 dogs ...

Dogs can be trained to do a multitude of tasks. Most can learn to sit, lie and stay; others can guide the blind, rescue the injured and maybe even detect cancer. But the hardest thing of all might be ...

This post has been corrected. See the note at the bottom for details. MRI machines have all kinds of helpful uses like telling us what’s wrong with the tissues deep inside our bodies and helping ...

Scientists trained 13 dogs – golden retrievers, border collies, a German shepherd, and a Chinese crested – to lay down and remain still for more than seven minutes while in a brain-scanning MRI ...