Can cats really remember names?

Naming a cat doesn't seem to be as easy as it sounds.

In a recent feline research experiment, researchers found that "many cats cannot distinguish their names by sound alone. "In this study, a surprising conclusion was that cats need to observe their owners' expressions to confirm that a "noun" may be calling them.

When only playing a recording of the name to the cat, most cats do not respond; some cats will have some hesitation or searching behavior when they hear the owner's call; and only when they see their master calling them, the cat will decisively release the "iron, 666" signal, indicating that they are familiar with the "name".

In other words, if you do not let see the owner's expression, the cat is likely to be unable to distinguish that the voice is their name.

If you don't let your owner look at your face, you'll be "tone deaf"!

Feline scholars have found that cats form an accurate memory of a term in the brain, there are generally three methods.

1. through repeated mechanical repetition and reward mechanism, the formation of the "noun - behavior - reward" response mechanism: is exactly the learning process of many cats' names. This is how many cats learn their names. By rewarding them with food or games, the owner makes the cat think that a term means a benefit. Over time, cats will "smell the sound.

2. Reading human micro-expressions to determine the meaning behind the sound: Cats are known to be the most powerful human micro-expression readers. In modern zoological research, many scholars agree with this statement: domestic cats have the most superior understanding and memory of human micro-expressions. Cats can read your micro-expressions to get a good insight into certain information, such as "food" "love" or "disgust". When you call your cat, your cat responds by reading your expressions. One of the biggest arguments for this idea is that many domesticated cats with "ear infections" can still be called by their owners' "names". Scholars have found that these cats rely entirely on their strong expression reading ability to interact with their owners.

3. Some cats have a natural sense of onomatopoeia: cats have a natural interest in high-frequency sounds, sharp sounds, repeated short sounds, purring simulated sounds, and so on. This is why some cats named "Mimi", "Chirp" and "Meow" are more responsive to names. In scientific observations, cats named "Mimi" are indeed more likely than cats named "Burger," "Dumpling," and "Doughnut Cats named "Mimi" are indeed more likely to be "known and moved" than cats named "burger," "dumpling," or "doughnut. Feral cats have a natural sense of these words, which is related to the cat's ancestral genes, and these sounds are highly similar to the natural sounds of "those cats' prey", so it is easy to trigger the cat's interest.

If you name a cat "Pythagoras", it probably won't remember it.

Cats do not have the problem of "remembering names", for cats it is a matter of "reacting to a sound". In reality, some cats can understand the sound, but the domestic cat does not give feedback, why?

It is likely that "the cat is playing dumb to understand".

In the experiment, the brain waves of some cats, and the nouns have been responsive but had no specific action. This has puzzled some scholars. The hypothesis given by some scholars is that cats have a unique stress-resistance mechanism, and when some external stimuli (voice commands are also an external stimulus) contradict the cat's emotional stress, the cat may automatically ignore these external stimuli, thus allowing its emotions to remain stable.

In other words, cats are natural masters of psychology and massage their inner selves all the time.

Do they all have to live against their will as often as humans do?

It can be said that cats are also the straightforward Boy in the animal world, obviously understanding the human call, but do not move, just to make their own better mood.

If you are thinking of naming your cat, be patient. It takes repeated rewards for cats to remember "voice commands" to form a habit.

Some owners expect their cats to remember their names within three days, which is very difficult to do. It is important to name your cat gradually, use the reward mechanism and be patient to develop a habit.