The article “Your dog really does know what you’re saying, and a brain scan shows how” by the Washington Post describes an experiment conducted by scientists in Hungary that test whether dogs could understand words and the emotions behind them. Dogs are intelligent creatures, capable of following the orders of their owners and displaying strong cognitive abilities. So to test for this, the researchers gathered several family dogs and trained them to sit still for several minutes in an fMRI scanner to measure their brain activity. For the experiment, a trainer familiar with the dogs spoke words of praise that were commonly used by their owners and neutral words such as “yet” and “if,” that the researchers believed were meaningless to the animals. …show more content…
The researchers investigated whether dogs would respond to certain sounds more strongly than nonvocal sounds like humans and would process the emotional cues of those sounds similarly like humans. The researchers used an fMRI with 11 awake dogs and 22 humans and had the dogs and humans listened to a set of sounds which were human vocalizations, dog vocalizations, nonvocal environmental sounds, and a silent baseline. The results of the experiment showed that dogs and humans had similar processing pathways by using similar regions of the auditory cortex and subcortical regions to process the sounds. The emotional-sensitive regions all responded stronger to positive sounds, but no region responded stronger to negative sounds. The results suggest common functions in dog and human voice processing with acoustical cues related to emotions and are being processed similarly in the dog and human auditory
My interest in MRI started when I first read the book “MRI, The Basics” written by the author Ray Hashemi. By the time I successfully finished my MRI clinical placement in Tehran University of Medical Sciences, I knew for sure that MRI would be the field I would be choosing to take on. What attracts me most about MRI is how beautifully scientist could create a technology that can take advantage of the magnetic moments of human body for imaging it without any harms of ionizing radiation. Although there are drawbacks to MRI, combining it with other modalities would be a more effective approach to an accurate diagnosis.
I think it conveys this because you can’t talk to your pets. You can not understand what they are trying to say. However, in this short story the dog owner and the dogs are having a very serious conversation, which you usually would not have with a dog. At the beginning of the story they start off with the owner calling the dogs into the office saying, “The reason I’ve summoned you here today is I really think we should talk about something.” The dog, Bob, replies with, “What’s that?” Usually you would not think your dogs would have a serious conversation with you. In reality, you would expect them to sit there with their mouth open staring at you with no response. The dogs also seem to have good grammar even though they do not have a brain like ours. That is where I think the situational irony comes in. How can a dog speak if they do not have a brain like ours?
In the Brainology article, professor Carol Dweck put forward two mindsets: fixed mindset and growth mindset. That is an educational project that was instituted by Carol Dweck and made her famous for. That is talking about transforming student’s motivation to learn found out that people have fixed mindset or growth mindset all have profound effects on their motivation, learning and school achievement. From this article, this is particularly designed to help students break all boundaries and limits set by negative learning perspectives, while also instilling self-confidence is fixed, that each person has a certain amount and we call this a fixed mindset. A fixed mindset makes challenges threatening for students, and it makes mistakes and failures
A wolf pack is, at its foundation, simply a family, with the parents (alphas) guiding the activities of the group. Hence, it is easy to believe that dogs are able to bond with human families, especially when the alphas are already parents. The parents view the dog as one of their children, one who remains dependent and will never leave or criticize them (Rogers 1), and in the same manner, the dog views the human parents as if they were his actual parents and as a result, loves and trusts them with his life gladly following them, not once questioning their decisions or actions. For these reasons, humans have found release in the company of dogs because dogs do not judge. By way of example, Sigmund Freud was notably a bad singer and as a result, never sang in public, however he often hummed an aria while petting his dog (Rogers 2). In the presence of dogs, our need to self-censor our words and actions vanishes (Rogers 2). Ultimately, dogs and human beings are able to form such strong emotional bonds through love and
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI),which is one of the most exciting recent developments in biomedical magnetic resonance imaging, allows the non-invasive visualisation of human brain function(1).
“Do animals have emotions?” When animal lovers and pet owners are asked this question, the answer is a quick and definite, “Yes!” For others, the answer isn 't so simple. Many of the researchers that had reservations, spent their time wondering what dogs (and other animals) were capable of feeling, or if they were capable of feeling anything at all. Since these researchers were unable to put feelings under a microscope, their research lead no where, and they remained skeptics. To the contrary,Marc Bekoff, author of several books including The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy and Why They Matter, begins his research three decades ago with the question, “What does it feel like to be a
Music and the Brain: Processing and Responding (A General Overview). For any individual who either avidly listens to or performs music, it is understood that many melodies have amazing effects on both our emotions and our perception. To address the effects of music on the brain, it seems most logical to initially map the auditory and neural pathways of sound. In the case of humans, the mechanism responsible for receiving and transmitting sound to the brain is the ears.
Brain Stem Reflexes refer to a process where an emotion is induced by sound or music because the fundamental acoustical characteristics of the sound or music are received by the brain stem which signals a potentially urgent and important event. Sounds that are sudden, dissonant, loud, or have fast temporal patterns induce arousal or feelings of unpleasantness in the listener (Berlyne 1971; Burt et al. 1995; Foss et al. 1989; Halpern et al. 1986). These responses show the impact of auditory sensations (music as sound in the most basic sense). Our perceptual system is continually scanning the immediate surro...
Vaidya, Geetanjali. "Music, Emotion and the Brain." Serendip. N.p., 2004. Web. 7 Jan 2012. .
You will realize that dogs are normally curious by nature and wants to learn something new. Dogs can also be instinctive at times. Training them will go a long way in ensuring that your dog uses its brains
In the last few decades, the notion of language and brain has been highlighted in different scientific fields such as: neurology, cognitive science, linguistics biology, technology and finally education.
Irene Pepperberg did and experiment to try and show how smart animals are. She bought herself a bird and tried to teach it to talk like we do because she thought, “if he learned to communicate, I could ask him questions about how he sees the world,” and that’s just what she taught him. She taught him how to speak like humans and he developed the concept of speaking and replying correctly. She
Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) was developed in the 1970s by a linguist John Grinder and by a mathematician Richard Bandler. Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a therapy that deals with one’s perceptions of the world by their experiences, beliefs, values, assumptions, and sensory systems. NLP was developed by studying and examining the modeling pattern of human internal and external behaviors of the world. According to NLP website, “NLP investigates the inner functions of the human mind: how we think, how we develop our desires, goals and fears and how we motivate ourselves, make connections, and give meaning to our experiences” (NLP Comprehensive, 2013). NLP entails various collections of psychological practices that target to improve peoples’ lives. Mainly, it is a therapy of motivating the conscious mind by acting upon the unconscious mind; the experience is subjective to the person.
When anyone would address them by name, they would look directly at them, and acknowledge that they were being spoken to, at only a few months old. According to the text, “long before they being to learn words, infants can make fine distinctions among the sounds of language” (pg. 178). Both these children were able to recognize the same sound being produced, and were able to respond. She went on to talk about, that even when someone calls a dog by name, they may not always respond or acknowledge that they are being spoken to, but her children do. Another example that she gave was both children always laughed and smiled, whenever someone made funny faces, or spoke with a funny tone of voice.
Often we have conversations with our pets throughout the day. For a non-pet lover, our conversations can seem, well odd. Have you ever wondered if our pets really understand us? It turns out they do.