Thinking Like A Dog

Dogs can be trained to jump through hoops and even parachute out of airplanes. But it wasn’t until recently that a scientist thought to train them to sit still in an fMRI scanner. For the first time, two researchers have captured the activity of a dog’s brain without sedation. The findings–based on communicating with the dogs via hand signals—revealed that dogs have active minds and shrewd social cognition.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=brain-scans-reveal-dogs-thoughts

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