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Sunday - 2/23/2014, 3:16am  ET  Audio: this might explain why
dogs seem so tuned into human emotion    According to the study
published in the journal, Current Biology, 11 dogs and 22 human
volunteers were tested by playing them 200 different sounds,
ranging from environmental noises, such as car sounds, to human
sounds (not words) and dog sounds.  Scientists found that when
the human voices were played, a similar region in both the human
and dog brains called the temporal pole was activated.  "We do
know there are voice areas in humans, areas that respond more
strongly to human sounds that any other types of sounds," said
Dr. Attila Andics, the lead author who hails from the Hungarian
Academy of Science's Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, in an
interview with BBC News.  "The location (of the activity) in the
dog brain is very similar to where we found it in the human
brain. The fact that we found these areas exist at all in the
dog brain at al