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What it's like to be a dog, and other adventures in animal neuroscience, Gregory Berns

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What it's like to be a dog, and other adventures in animal neuroscience, Gregory Berns

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-282) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

What it's like to be a dog

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Gregory Berns

Sub title

and other adventures in animal neuroscience

Summary

Neuroscientist Berns and his team taught dogs to go into an MRI scanner--completely awake. They discovered what makes dogs individuals with varying capacities for self-control, different value systems, and a complex understanding of human speech. Here Berns explores the fascinating inner lives of wild animals from dolphins and sea lions to the extinct Tasmanian tiger. The team's findings will fundamentally reshape how we think about--and treat--animals

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- What it's like to be a dog -- The marshmallow test -- Why a brain? -- Seizing sea lions -- Rudiments -- Painting with sound -- Buridan's ass -- Talk to the animals -- A death in Tasmania -- Lonesome tiger -- Dog lab -- Epilogue : the brain ark

Target audience

adult

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What it is like to be a dog

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