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The Science of How Your Dog’s Brain Works

Inquiring Minds

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Dog Cognition

i wound up studying anthropomorphisms a lot, pretty early in my career, studying dog cognition. Can dogs do things that we see human babies learning to do overtime? Do they problem solve in the same way? Do they think about other minds? You know, all those comparative psychological questions dog cognition asks of dogs. And most of dog cognition is focused just on their human like cognitive abilities. Now, the fact that they feel sadness, or maybe even guilt, i'm kind of agnostic about whether they can,. That's kind of an empirical question and something that we should be investigating further. The first thing we get wrong is that we're not inquiring further. We're just immediately

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