unable to understand or think clearlyĭecline – v. to find or calculate the quantity or amount of (something)Ĭonfused – adj. a burst of brain activity that signals the beginning of deeper sleep Jill Robbins adapted her report for Learning English. The team collects tissue from dogs’ brains and shares diseased tissue samples with researchers around the world.ĭeborah Block reported this story for. "Among very old dogs, up to two thirds of them show signs of dementia, and this dementia is really very similar in a lot of aspects to that of humans, so we could use dogs as a natural model of human aging." Senior Researcher Enikó Kubinyi adds that the aging dogs suffer from the same problems as humans who are aging. Researchers hope the study will not only help understanding of cognitive ability and memory changes in dogs, but also the aging process in humans. So their performance is declining, and they are getting less effective in solving novel problems and shifting from one task to another." “If you first hide the reward into one pot, then in another and in another, they get confused after a while. She says the older dogs were easily tricked. Szabo is a neuroscientist with Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. “Female dogs have approximately, on average, twice as many spindles per minute as male dogs, and they also happen to be the better learners, they memorize the task much better."īut it was harder for all the older dogs to remember things, especially when several things were happening at the same time. Iotchey says the females appeared much better at learning new things. The scientists found differences between male and female dogs. This is the first time we were able to show that sleep spindles predict learning in the dog.” In the dog, sleep spindles have only been described, they were never quantified, they were never related to function. "From studies with humans and rodents, we know that they are extremely useful markers both of memory and cognition but also of aging and activity. He says that this is the first time dogs’ sleep spindles have been measured, and related to the dogs learning new things. Ivaylo Iotchey is a neuroscience researcher. The study may help researchers understand how human brains change as we age. The Hungarian scientists hope to understand how the dogs' ability to learn and remember changes as they get older. The brain activity, called sleep spindles, takes place in human beings, and has been linked with learning. The scientists placed wires on the dogs' heads to measure electrical activity in the brain. It seems the animals are learning while they sleep. Researchers in Hungary have found another reason to let dogs keep on sleeping. There is an English proverb that says, "Let Sleeping Dogs Lie." It means to not bring up an old problem.
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