A DOGS FIVE SENSES
If we were to think of our brains as computers we can imagine them receiving and processing data received typically from a keyboard. This data is then analysed and an output is produced either to a screen or a hard copy like a print out. Our brains receive input not through a keyboard but through our senses of which we have five. Touch, taste, hearing, seeing and smell. The sensory data received travels up through our cerebral cortex to our brains which then analyse the input and produce an output which it sends back again.In Stanley Coren’s book “How dogs think” he writes about the Greek philosopher Protagoras who summed up this notion around 450 BC by saying “we are nothing but a bundle of sensations”. Dogs share the same five senses as man. Both man and dog translate the sensory information the same way, but with noticeable differences. The quality of the information received by man and dog is different, and that is what separates us when we compare sensory input. Man has kn