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Anna Jon-And receives funding from from the Swedish Research Council and has received funding from Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Johan Lind has received funding from the Swedish Research ...

Because animals have a limited capability of understanding human language, they cannot “read” the way humans do.