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Scent can be used as stimuli with dogs in fMRI machines - and it can tell us a lot about their cognition

April 14, 2018

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Brianna Artz

The first example of dogs in fMRI machines was demonstrated by the Center for Neuropolicy at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia in 2013. If you have never been in an MRI, they are very noisy (but won’t hurt you), and this can be scary to animals! Monkeys and rats nee...

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