The Puppy Kindergarten (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Brian Hare | knygos.lt

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The New York Times bestselling authors of The Genius of Dogs share science-backed findings from the "Puppy Kindergarten"--their unique lab for studying canine cognitive development to help us better understand how dogs learn and understand the world.

When husband and wife scientists Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods fell in love with a trained therapy dog named Congo, they wanted to know how to help train more dogs to be like him. And so their puppy kindegarten, the first large-scale study of puppy development since 1950, was born.

Hare, founder of the Duke Canine Cognition Center, an associate professor in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology and at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University, and Woods, an award-winning research scientist and journalist, set out to identify when and how puppies develop key cognitive skills by using the same kinds of cognitive tests and games that have become standard for understanding human infant development. Initially, they wanted to know if they could predict what early qualities would make great assistance dogs. But they quickly realized that these special dogs have a whole lot to tell us about how all dogs navigate the world, solve problems, and learn from the people around them.

Introducing us to the many puppies who contributed to this research and synthesizing findings from cognitive neuroscience, psychology, and evolutionary anthropology, this delightful, informative book will offer readers a new window into who their dogs are and what they can be.