What it's like to be a dog : and other adventures in animal neuroscience / Gregory Berns.
Berns, Gregory, author.
2017
QL785 .B414 2017 (Mapit)
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Title What it's like to be a dog : and other adventures in animal neuroscience / Gregory Berns.
Author Berns, Gregory, author.
Edition First edition.
ISBN 9780465096244 (hardcover)
0465096247 (hardcover)
9780465096251 (electronic book)
Published New York : Basic Books, 2017.
Language English
Description vii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number QL785 .B414 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 591.5/13
Summary "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. In a radical experiment in neuroarchaeology, he reconstructs the brain of one of the most mysterious animals in recent history, the Tasmanian tiger, to explain why it disappeared. Berns's latest scientific breakthroughs show how similar animal brains are to those of humans and make clear that we can understand what it's like to be a dog or a dolphin. He proves definitively that animals have feelings very much like we do--a revelation which forces us to reconsider what animal rights ought to be. Written with insight, empathy, and humor, What It's Like to Be a Dog heralds a new world, one in which complex intelligence is all around us. It is the new manifesto for animal liberation of the twenty-first century."--Jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.

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