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BOOK
Title What it's like to be a dog : and other adventures in animal neuroscience / Gregory Berns
Imprint New York, NY : Basic Books, 2017
©2017

LIBRARY / MAP CALL NUMBER STATUS MESSAGE
 Limhamn:Vuxen Facklitteratur (500-599)  590 engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
Edition First edition
Descript vii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Note "September 2017"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-282) and index
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
"Do dogs experience emotions like people do? To find out, neuroscientist and bestselling author Gregory Berns and his team did something nobody had ever attempted: they trained dogs to go into an MRI scanner--completely awake--so they could figure out what they think and feel. But dogs were just the beginning. In [this book], Berns takes us into the brains and minds of wild animals: sea lions who can learn to dance, and dolphins who can see with sound..."--Dust jacket
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
Subject Dogs -- Nervous system
Psychology, Comparative
Dogs -- Nervous system
Cognition -- physiology
Brain Mapping
Magnetic Resonance Imaging -- veterinary
Cognitive Neuroscience -- methods
Dogs
Models, Animal
Cognition in animals.
Psychology, Comparative.
Hundar
Nervsystemet
Neurovetenskap
Kognition
Classmark 591.5/13
ISBN/ISSN 9781541672994
1541672992
9780465096244
0465096247 (hardback)
9780465096251 (electronic book)
99975940385
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