What it's like to be a dog : and other adventures in animal neuroscience / Gregory Berns
By: Berns, Gregory [author].
Publisher: New York, NY : Basic Books, ©2017Edition: First edition.Description: vii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781541672994.Subject(s): Cognition in animals | Dogs -- Nervous system | Psychology, ComparativeGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | QL785 .B414 2017 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000013713 |
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"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 ..."--Jacket