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“Results of Exp.1 showed that household cats paid attention to the monitor for longer in the incongruent condition, suggesting an expectancy violation effect; however, café cats did not.”

Saho Takagi et al.nature.com ↗

Play a cat the name of a housemate cat and show the wrong face, and it stares at the screen longer. Nobody trained them. Cats in big human families picked up their humans’ names too. Your cat knows exactly what you are calling it. It just doesn’t care.