Dog owners often say their pets know how they are feeling. Now, new research from The University of Vienna suggests they may be right. Scientists used brain scans to study how dogs react when they ...

If you’ve ever felt like your dog knows when you’re having a bad day, new research suggests you may be right. Scientists in Europe used MRI brain scans to study how dogs react to human facial ...

The researchers worked with pet dogs, mostly border collies, that had been trained to lie still in an MRI scanner.Photograph: Laura V Cuaya While dogs are known to turn the puppy eyes on their owners, ...

For generations, dog owners have believed their pets can sense when something is wrong. Now scientists say they have found the first direct evidence in a dog's brain showing that the animal can ...

There’s a reason dogs are trusted as emotional companions. If it seems like they have a nearly supernatural ability to sense human emotion, it’s because they practically do. As researchers at the ...

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(CNN) — It’s something every dog owner knows — but now we have the science to prove it: Dogs really can tell when we’re happy or sad. Scientists have scanned the brains of dogs to reveal how they ...

A stock image of a curious dog resting its head on the edge of the bed and looking at the owner. Getty Images/Aleksandr Zotov Dog owners have long suspected their pets know when they are having a bad ...

Anyone who has a dog or has spent much time with one knows that our furry companions seem remarkably insightful when it comes to human emotions. A new brain-scan study suggests that there’s more going ...

When it matters, dogs know exactly how to pull out all the stops with just one sad puppy look. But how can I tell if my dog is truly sad? PETBOOK spoke with a canine psychologist to reveal how you ...

The findings, published in iScience, suggest dogs process our emotions across a network of brain regions Getty A new study used brain scans to show dogs can distinguish between different human facial ...