{"id":10178,"date":"2019-09-25T17:48:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T00:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10178"},"modified":"2019-09-29T18:03:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T01:03:54","slug":"dog-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/25\/dog-brains\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog Brains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>from National Geographic<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Centuries of breeding have reshaped dog brains\u2014here\u2019s how<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>The role for which a dog was bred\u2014say retrieving birds\u2014is reflected in their brain structure, according to a study of 33 breeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BY\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/contributors\/l\/liz-langley.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">LIZ LANGLEY<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What is your dog thinking? Brain scans give glimpse\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UsJf9NwTFhw?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There are hundreds of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/animals\/mammals\/d\/domestic-dog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">dog<\/a>\u00a0breeds around the world, from the teensy\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.akc.org\/dog-breeds\/chihuahua\/\" target=\"_blank\">chihuahua<\/a>\u00a0to the massive\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.akc.org\/dog-breeds\/st-bernard\/\" target=\"_blank\">Saint Bernard<\/a>\u2014all thanks to centuries of selective breeding by humans. With such a wide range of canine sizes and temperaments, it\u2019s no surprise that, in the process, we have reshaped their\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/health-and-human-body\/human-body\/brain\/\" target=\"_blank\">brains<\/a>\u00a0as well as their bodies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new study performed MRI scans on 33 breeds and discovered how a dog was bred is reflected in their brain structure. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/magazine\/2012\/02\/build-a-dog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Read \u201cHow to build a dog\u201d in\u00a0<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/magazine\/2012\/02\/build-a-dog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">National Geographic<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/magazine\/2012\/02\/build-a-dog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">\u00a0magazine<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For instance, dogs bred to be small\u2014say the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.akc.org\/dog-breeds\/lhasa-apso\/\">lhasa <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.akc.org\/dog-breeds\/lhasa-apso\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"apso\u2014have round heads with similarly round brains that take up most of their skull. A larger bree (opens in a new tab)\">apso\u2014have round heads with similarly round brains that take up most of their skull. A larger bree<\/a>d like a golden retriever has a long, narrow head, and thus a more elongated brain that doesn&#8217;t fill all of the skull space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe biggest wow moment for me was just looking at the scans,\u201d says study leader\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/heb.fas.harvard.edu\/people\/erin-hecht\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Erin E. Hecht<\/a>, an evolutionary neuroscientist at Harvard University. \u201cIt\u2019s really cool in science where you have a result where you don\u2019t have to do any fancy statistics to be able to tell there\u2019s something going on.\u201d (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2010\/8\/100803-dogs-brains-changed-breeding-science\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more how humans have reordered dog brains<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This fresh look inside the mind of dogs offers a better understanding of how breeds are hardwired, which in turn helps potential dog owners choose the right breed for their home, adds Hecht, whose\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jneurosci.org\/content\/early\/2019\/08\/30\/JNEUROSCI.0303-19.2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">study was published today in the journal\u00a0<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jneurosci.org\/content\/early\/2019\/08\/30\/JNEUROSCI.0303-19.2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Neurosci<\/a><\/em>. (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/animals\/photos\/domestic-dogs\/\" target=\"_blank\">See our fun photo gallery of pet dogs<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/animals\/2019\/09\/humans-shaped-dog-brains\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at Nat Geo (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at Nat Geo<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from National Geographic Centuries of breeding have reshaped dog brains\u2014here\u2019s how The role for which a dog was bred\u2014say retrieving birds\u2014is reflected in their brain structure, according to a study of 33 breeds. BY\u00a0LIZ LANGLEY There are hundreds of\u00a0dog\u00a0breeds around the world, from the teensy\u00a0chihuahua\u00a0to the massive\u00a0Saint Bernard\u2014all thanks to centuries of selective breeding by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}