388: The Science of How Your Dog’s Brain Works
“They learn via olfactory cues, but we don’t use them. I think it would be hard to convince people to wield the kinds of odors that they would need to have on hand in order to prompt dogs to learn more effectively where to go, but I think the idea is completely right.”
This week we talk to Alexandra Horowitz from the Dog Cognition Lab at Barnard College about her new book The Year of the Puppy: How Dogs Become Themselves.
Horowitz’s book examines how a dog’s brain works and develops—how it dramatically changes during their first 12 months of life, her shifting perspective on dog cognition, and the vast differences between humans and dogs that we tend to overlook.
