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O vinculo poderoso entre humanos e caes sera revelado de maneira unica. Leais, obedientes e carinhosos, eles sao verdadeiramente os "melhores amigos do homem". Mas os caes nos amam como nos os amamos? O neurocientista da Universidade Emory, Gregory Berns, passou decadas usando a tecnologia para estudar como o cerebro humano funciona, mas u

"e;Dog lovers and neuroscientists should both read this important book."e; --Dr. Temple GrandinWhat is it like to be a dog? A bat? Or a dolphin? To find out, neuroscientist and bestselling author Gregory Berns and his team did something nobody had ever attempted: they trained dogs to go into an MRI scanner--completely awake--so they could figure out what they think and feel. And dogs were just the beginning. In What It's Like to Be a Dog, Berns takes us into the minds of wild animals: sea lions who can learn to dance, dolphins who can see with sound, and even the now extinct Tasmanian tiger. Berns's latest scientific breakthroughs prove definitively that animals have feelings very much like we do--a revelation that forces us to reconsider how we think about and treat animals. Written with insight, empathy, and humor, What It's Like to Be a Dog is the new manifesto for animal liberation of the twenty-first century.

Does your dog really love you? Neuroscientist Gregory Berns used an MRI machine to find out