Oh, good.

Because when I s- when I started my PhD, uh, my first task was to train dogs to learn the names of toys.

The idea here is that basically once you have a dog that knows the names of objects, you have a shared communication system with them, so you can ask them questions and they can directly answer what goes on in their mind through the way they behave.

For example, you can show them a ball, and then you ask them, like, "Bring me a ball," and you present them with a bunch of different things that maybe look like balls or not, and they tell you what in their mind is a ball.

So we really wanted to have dogs that know names of toys.

But when I started, we figured, you know, we will just train some dogs.

They will learn the names of toys, and then we test them.

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