How Dogs Learn
My Time.com column this week is on a lighter subject than usual—how dogs learn:
“Over the past half-century, the tools of neuroscience have revealed much about the workings of the human brain. Now researchers are pushing forward a new fro
ntier: exploring what goes on in the mind of man’s best friend. The study of ‘canine cognition’ has taken off in recent years, energized by new findings about how dogs learn about words, numbers, abstract concepts—and about how they manage us, their ostensible masters.”
Read more here, and if you have a dog—do you have a sense of what he or she is thinking?