Awake fMRI Reveals Brain Regions for Novel Word Detection in Dogs

How do dogs understand human words? At a basic level, understanding would require the discrimination of words from non-words. To determine the mechanisms of such a discrimination, we trained 12 dogs to retrieve two objects based on object names, then probed the neural basis for these auditory discri...

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Main Authors: Ashley Prichard, Peter F. Cook, Mark Spivak, Raveena Chhibber, Gregory S. Berns
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Neuroscience
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnins.2018.00737/full