Ph.D. in Animal Science 
Interested in animal cognition and communication 
Dog person
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We suggest that the difference in the dogs’ behaviour might be related to hearing meaningful words (for the gifted dogs) and could be a sign of increased attention 
Head-tilts could be related to making a cross-modal match in the dogs’ memory (e.g. name to a visual image) upon hearing the name of a toypic.twitter.com/cxwacWpUta
Love it! Loki does this when he hears a word he recognises or if we’re directly talking to him, and it looks like he’s really trying to understand even if he can’t. It’s usually accompanied by pricked ears, and eye contact to show he’s actively listening as well.
It's curious how other than videos on TikTok or YouTube we couldn't find any real answer. We immediately noticed that our gifted dogs did it almost every time the owners were mentioning the toys so, we got back and watched all the videos from the tests 1/2
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