Sentences with phrase «in dog brains»

He and his team were startled to find two genetic footprints, in the form of messenger RNAs (mRNAs), for COX - 1 in dog brain.

The fact that we found these areas exist at all in the dog brain at all is a surprise - it is the first time we have seen this in a non-primate.»

Not exact matches

Some of the most popular lines include soft and chewy PlushPuppy toys, Outward Hound's travel products and brain - teaser puzzles in the Dog Games line.

Thanks to the work of several dogged journalists, and despite the NFL's best efforts to subvert the truth, we now know that repeated blows to the head experienced in the normal course of football play can lead to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a type of brain damage resulting in early onset dementia and severe (and, in the worst cases, suicidal) depression.

«From the powerty shacks, he looks from the cracks to the tracks And the hoof beats pound in his brain And he's taught how to walk in a pack Shoot in the back With his fist in a clinch To hang and to lynch To hide «neath the hood To kill with no pain Like a dog on a chain He ain't got no name But it ain't him to blame He's only a pawn in their game»

At a certain moment a royal Bengal tiger appeared swimming towards it, reached it, and lay panting like a dog upon the ground in the midst of the people, still possessed by such an agony of terror that one of the Englishmen could calmly step up with a rifle and blow out its brains.

If the PSG asks you to roll over and bark like a dog in basic training (which, being Fort Jackson, I'm assuming this was) then you roll over and bark your brains out.

Two other reports in the same issue of Cancer Causes and Control suggest that children born to mothers who eat at least one hot dog per week during pregnancy have double the normal risk of developing brain tumors, as do children whose fathers ate hot dogs before conception.

Coconut oil is a superfood rich in MCT's which studies have found help boost your dog's brain power while psyllium husk is an excellent source of dietary fibre to help keep your dog healthy and happy.

WFAN was two years old when then program director Mark Mason decided to pair the Mad Dog in afternoon drive time with fellow Long Island native Mike Francesa, who before landing an on - air job at WFAN had worked as a researcher at CBS Sports, where he was sometimes referred to as Brent Musburger's brain.

It's all extremely cute, and then we see that Professor Bwains is sitting in her bedroom, pretending one Barbie doll is a professor lecturing an assembled array of other dolls about dog brains.

Finally, IQ toys are designed to stimulate the dog's brain, and they're often very interactive, allowing you to join in.

«As a dog's head or skull shape becomes flatter — more pug - like — the brain rotates forward and the smell centre of the brain drifts further down to the lowest position in the skull,» Valenzuela says.

While dogs and most humans use different hemispheres of the brain to process meaning and intonation — instead of the same hemispheres, as was suggested — lead author Attila Andics says the more important finding still stands: Dogs» brains process different aspects of human speech in different hemisphedogs and most humans use different hemispheres of the brain to process meaning and intonation — instead of the same hemispheres, as was suggested — lead author Attila Andics says the more important finding still stands: Dogs» brains process different aspects of human speech in different hemispheDogs» brains process different aspects of human speech in different hemispheres.

Just as it does in dogs and humans, the disease attacks a wolf's brain, causing aggressive behavior and, eventually, death.

Editor's note: When reporting results from the functional MRI scans of dogs» brains, left and right were accidentally reversed in all images, the researchers report in a correction posted April 7 in Science.

Besides differences in genes linked to brain development, Erik Axelsson of Uppsala University in Sweden and colleagues found three genes in dogs that are vital for digestion and extend their ancestral carnivorous diet to include starch (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature11837).

A study published September 2 in Science suggested that dog brains comprehend speech in a similar way to human brains.

While the brain hemispheres dogs use to process meaning and intonation don't match what's seen in most humans, as was originally suggested, lead author Attila Andics says the more important finding still stands: Dogs» brains process different aspects of human speech in different hemisphedogs use to process meaning and intonation don't match what's seen in most humans, as was originally suggested, lead author Attila Andics says the more important finding still stands: Dogs» brains process different aspects of human speech in different hemispheDogs» brains process different aspects of human speech in different hemispheres.

Dogs have the most neurons, though not the largest brain: Trade - off between body mass and number of neurons in the cerebral cortex of large carnivoran species.

[Attila Andics et al., Voice - Sensitive Regions in the Dog and Human Brain Are Revealed by Comparative fMRI] Seems that thousands of years of domestication have made our furry friends sensitive to the same vocal cues we are.

Researchers found that dogs» left hemispheres process meaningful words while right hemispheres process tone, Laurel Hamers wrote in «Dog brains divide language tasks» (SN: 10/1/16, p. 11).

That biased tail - wagging behavior reflects what is happening in the dogs» brains.

The images revealed that dog brains have voice areas and that they process voices in the same way that human brains do, the team reports online today in Current Biology.

The researchers discovered that in dogs, 48 % of their auditory brain regions respond more strongly to environmental sounds, such as a car engine, than to voices.

So the team trained 11 dogs to lie motionless in a functional magnetic resonance imaging brain scanner, while wearing headphones to deliver the sounds and protect their ears.

The answer lies, he thinks, in what the scans also revealed: Striking similarities in how dog and human brains process emotionally laden sounds.

Scientists already employ fMRI, which uses changes in blood flow as a proxy for brain activity, to scan the brains of restrained monkeys, but Berns wanted to train dogs to willingly enter the machine and learn simple things, such as associating a hand signal with a reward of a hot dog, all the while staying still enough to collect interpretable brain scans.

In other words, it seemed as though exerting self - discipline had used up much of the dogs» blood sugar supply — weakening their brain's executive powers and diminishing the animals» ability to exert goal - directed effort.

The results showed that all five scents elicited a similar response in parts of the dogs» brains involved in detecting smells, the olfactory bulb and peduncle.

«Scent of the familiar: You may linger like perfume in your dog's brain.»

He has shown that dogs have a positive response in the caudate region of the brain when given a hand signal indicating they would receive a food treat, as compared to a different hand signal for «no treat.»

Dogs have the ability to distinguish words and the intonation of human speech through brain regions similar to those that humans use, a study in the 2 September issue of Science reports.

Furthermore, monitoring of the reward regions of the brain revealed that the dogs responded best when praising words were used in combination with praising intonation.

To get a sense of how these large brains evolved, Michael McGowen, an evolutionary biologist at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, and his colleagues compared the dolphin's genome with two of its closest land - loving, small - brained relatives, the cow and the horse, as well as the dog.

Thus, tail wagging does matter to other dogs and is a good reflection of what is happening in a dog's brain, the team concludes.

While the MRI machine captured their brain activity, the dogs were exposed to recordings of their trainer speaking in different combinations of words and intonation, in both praising and neutral ways.

The brains of humans and dogs light up in the same place in response to vocal sounds, suggesting these processing areas are inherited from a common ancestor

Mark Blumberg, a psychology professor at the UI and senior author of the study, says this latest discovery is further evidence that sleep twitches — whether in dogs, cats or humans — are connected to brain development, not dreams.

Dogs have the same brain structures that produce emotions in humans.

In addition, during sleep the brain - wave patterns of dogs are similar to people's, and they exhibit the same stages of electrical activity that are observed in humans — all of which is consistent with the idea that dogs are dreaminIn addition, during sleep the brain - wave patterns of dogs are similar to people's, and they exhibit the same stages of electrical activity that are observed in humans — all of which is consistent with the idea that dogs are dreaminin humans — all of which is consistent with the idea that dogs are dreaming.

«Dogs process faces in specialized brain area, study reveals: Face - selective region has been identified in the temporal cortex of dogs.&raDogs process faces in specialized brain area, study reveals: Face - selective region has been identified in the temporal cortex of dogs.&radogs.»

If the dogs» response to faces was learned — by associating a human face with food, for example — you would expect to see a response in the reward system of their brains, but that was not the case, Berns says.

Instructed to attend to only one of two competing stories — «The Blue Kangaroo» vs. «Harry the Dog,» for example — the children whose parents had received additional attention instruction showed a 50 percent increase in brain activity in response to the correct story compared to children in the other two groups, the authors report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; their responses matched those seen in adults and children of higher socioeconomic status.

The scans revealed that when praised, 13 of the dogs showed equal or greater levels of brain activity in the region that controls decision - making and signals rewards than when they received food, the scientists will report in an upcoming issue of Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

The epithet dogs even some functional MRI studies, which seek to link specific thought processes to corresponding regions of the brain by measuring moment - to - moment differences in blood flow.

«In this study, we were interested in comparing different species of carnivorans to see how the numbers of neurons in their brains relate to the size of their brains, including a few favorite species including cats and dogs, lions and brown bears,» said Associate Professor of Psychology and Biological Sciences Suzana Herculano - Houzel, who developed the method for accurately measuring the number of neurons in brainIn this study, we were interested in comparing different species of carnivorans to see how the numbers of neurons in their brains relate to the size of their brains, including a few favorite species including cats and dogs, lions and brown bears,» said Associate Professor of Psychology and Biological Sciences Suzana Herculano - Houzel, who developed the method for accurately measuring the number of neurons in brainin comparing different species of carnivorans to see how the numbers of neurons in their brains relate to the size of their brains, including a few favorite species including cats and dogs, lions and brown bears,» said Associate Professor of Psychology and Biological Sciences Suzana Herculano - Houzel, who developed the method for accurately measuring the number of neurons in brainin their brains relate to the size of their brains, including a few favorite species including cats and dogs, lions and brown bears,» said Associate Professor of Psychology and Biological Sciences Suzana Herculano - Houzel, who developed the method for accurately measuring the number of neurons in brainin brains.

The results of the study are described in a paper titled «Dogs have the most neurons, though not the largest brain: Trade - off between body mass and number of neurons in the cerebral cortex of large carnivoran species» accepted for publication in the open access journal Frontiers in Neuroanatomy.

«Because they are slow moving and not terribly well armed with claws, teeth, brains, or agility, opossums will be killed by nearly every type of predator — owls, coyotes, wolves, feral dogs, cougars, bobcats...» Austad wrote in his 1997 book Why We Age.

He also has a network of dozens of paraveterinary assistants in surrounding villages who keep an ear out for reports of rabid dogs, conduct interviews, and, when possible, take brain samples of dogs suspected to have died of rabies.