I oftentimes also straining my ears after the sound have finished. It is hard to strain them before the sound, it is possible only if you anticipate the sound.
When dog needs to think it may tilt its head, but it wouldn't help to think. We might try to devise a hypothesis that it shakes blood with oxygen and glucuse rendering them more accessible to neurons, but I wouldn't buy it.
It is either a late attempt to catch the sound in its fullness, or it is a some kind of a signal to others. Or both.
My guess that it is a fixed action pattern of canines allowing them to locate a source of a sound, but it was repurposed by interactions with humans as a signal, that may be read as "Did I hear a learned noun?" With the following "Yeah, I see your expectant look, it seems I heard. Ok! I'm on it!".
It gives an idea of another experiment. To teach dogs to get visual commands, like given by gestures, pictures, or anything else they could digest. And to see would they tilt their heads receiving such commands. If they wouldn't then the tilting is nothing more than their way to respond to an important sound. I didn't tried it, but judging by my experience of interacting with dogs, they wouldn't tilt their head, if the situation doesn't involve sound processing.
When dog needs to think it may tilt its head, but it wouldn't help to think. We might try to devise a hypothesis that it shakes blood with oxygen and glucuse rendering them more accessible to neurons, but I wouldn't buy it.
It is either a late attempt to catch the sound in its fullness, or it is a some kind of a signal to others. Or both.
My guess that it is a fixed action pattern of canines allowing them to locate a source of a sound, but it was repurposed by interactions with humans as a signal, that may be read as "Did I hear a learned noun?" With the following "Yeah, I see your expectant look, it seems I heard. Ok! I'm on it!".
It gives an idea of another experiment. To teach dogs to get visual commands, like given by gestures, pictures, or anything else they could digest. And to see would they tilt their heads receiving such commands. If they wouldn't then the tilting is nothing more than their way to respond to an important sound. I didn't tried it, but judging by my experience of interacting with dogs, they wouldn't tilt their head, if the situation doesn't involve sound processing.