Cats associate words and pictures more quickly than human babies, study finds

Cats can learn to associate words with pictures much faster than human infants, according to a new study from Japan.

The study, published in the journal Animal Cognition, found that cats can learn to associate a word with a picture in just a few trials, whereas human infants typically require dozens of trials to learn the same association.

This suggests that cats have a much stronger ability to learn language than previously thought.

The study was conducted by a team of researchers at Kyoto University in Japan.

The researchers tested 16 cats and 16 human infants on their ability to learn to associate a word with a picture.

The cats and infants were shown a series of pictures of objects, such as a cat, a dog, a house, and a car.

Each picture was paired with a spoken word, such as "cat," "dog," "house," or "car."

The cats and infants were then tested on their ability to associate the words with the pictures.

The researchers found that the cats were able to learn to associate the words with the pictures much faster than the human infants.

The cats were able to learn the associations in just a few trials, whereas the human infants typically required dozens of trials to learn the same associations.

This suggests that cats have a much stronger ability to learn language than previously thought.

The researchers believe that this ability may be due to the fact that cats have a larger brain size relative to their body size than human infants.

This larger brain size may give cats a greater capacity for language learning.

The study's findings could have implications for the way we think about cats and their intelligence.

It is possible that cats are much more intelligent than we previously thought, and that they may be able to understand and communicate with us in ways that we do not yet realize.

Further research is needed to investigate the full extent of cats' language abilities.