Brain Scans Show What Dogs Are Actually Thinking About

It ’s human nature ( and human folly ) to affect like we get it on what our dogs are really thinking about . Oh , he ’s felicitous ! Oh , he ’s timeworn ! Oh , he loves this ! That ’s not exactly a scientific way to reckon at things . Brain scan , however , are tops scientific . So scanning the brains of dogs think its possible to know what dogs are really think .

Gregory Berns at Emory University in Atlanta , who was inspired by warfare dogs and their abilities , wanted to take a close look at the intellection of pawl and took the first brain scans of dogs that were “ amply awake ” and “ unrestrained ” . In one of his tests , he noted how dogs respond to human signals :

In the first experimentation , the dogs were trained to respond to mitt signals . One signal mean the dog would get a hot dog goody , and another signaling meant it would not receive one . The caudate region of the brain , associated with rewards in human beings , showed energizing in both hound when they watch the signal for the goody , but not for the no - delicacy signal .