Dr. Shani Drawer

We have also a few other

quite surprising dogs.

So in previous studies, we had a Pekingese, a Shih Tzu, Yorkshires, and it's still very rare even among border collies.

Because these dogs are so rare, we work online.

The dogs are located all around the world, speaking Norwegian, Portuguese, English, a lot of different languages.

And in our studies, they're learning only a name of an object, so it doesn't seem to matter to them in which language you say it.

But there are other studies of neuroimaging, not from me, from my colleagues,

that show the dogs actually do differentiate between languages and languages that they don't hear often.

In our study, you know, in the headline of the study, we say like one and a half year old children.

The reason for this is because when we look at the surface level behavior, it looks the same.

The dogs were listening to very brief interaction.

And at the surface level, they managed to perform something like kids do it.

But like is the key word here.

It looks the same.

It doesn't mean that what goes on in their brain is the same.

And actually, this is something we always need to keep in mind when we're looking at animals behaving, quote unquote, like humans.

Then we need to keep in mind that even if the behavior looks the same, it's most likely that the thoughts that underlie this behavior are different.

I'm sure they did.

So can you describe for us what Superman looks like in that very first edition, the first time we ever see him?

What was it like to draw Superman yourself?