Another benefit of working and hanging out with animals is that they quickly make it apparent that they don’t live in the same perceptual world we do, and that if we ignore that fact our relationship with them isn’t going to be nearly as good as it could be. But while the particular form of perception to which another animal species may assign a greater value may differ from ours, how we and animals process sensory data does share some basic similarities.
This fascinating animal study on olfaction caused me to ponder how some ways we humans process visual input parallels the ways rats process scent data.
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