Petting dogs engages the social brain, according to neuroimaging

ScienceDaily
Oct 5, 2022, 6:17 pm117 pts
Researchers report that viewing, feeling, and touching real dogs leads to increasingly higher levels of activity in the prefrontal cortex of the brain. The study shows that this effect persists after the dogs are no longer present, but is reduced when real dogs are replaced with stuffed animals. The findings…

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