Continuing in a canine theme, a loyal reader has commented on the NY Times article as titled above wherein a neuro-scientist has trained a dozen dogs to enter a MRI scanner and look directly at their brains. He treated them as persons, had a consent form signed and had them wear earmuffs to protect them from the decibels the scanner makes. I have always thought that dogs were pretty smart. There is a story about a ship at sea that picked up a blip on the radar of an unidentified vessel approaching on a collision course. Radio contact was not returned and a few blasts on the whistle had no effect. The captain took evasive action and as the mystery vessel passed close to her path he could see no one on the bridge except a black dog running about after which a person appeared to take the helm. It was presumed that the dog was trained to awaken the master when a ship would approach. Blackie would have been a good candidate for the MRI project.
tjs
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/opinion/sunday/dogs-are-people-too.html?pagewanted=all
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