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The hidden gifts of visual thinking with Temple Grandin

The TED Interview

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How Do Dogs Smell?

Sally Kohn: To me it's ridiculous to think a dog is not conscious. And it's a sensory based world. I see people ganking their dog away from the tree it wants to smell. Well, their smell is stronger than ours and I just read this fascinating article on dog brain scan where there's a gigantic trunk line from the nose to the visual cortex. This is research from Cornell. We have a dog in New York City who walks down the sidewalk with so many thousands of other dogs who feed on that exact part of the sidewalk. And he's got to smell every one of them and let him smell it. Exactly. But since I'm already a visual thinker,

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