How Dogs Love Us: A Neuroscientist and His Adopted Dog Decode the Canine Brain
- ISBN-10
- 0544114515
- ISBN-13
- 9780544114517
- Category
- Pets
- Pages
- 248
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Gregory Berns
Description
A neuroscientist recounts his efforts to overcome administrative and behavioral hurdles to train his dogs to sit still during an MRI scan, an effort that produced evidence about canine empathy and the human-dog bond.
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