Apps claim to show you the colors dogs see – but where does that information come from?
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SELECTED SOURCES
“Color vision in the dog,” Jay Neitz et al., Visual Neuroscience (1989)
http://www.neitzvision.com/research/publications/publications/1989-Neitz-Color_vision_in_dog-VisNeuro.pdf
“Extensive Connections of the Canine Olfactory Pathway Revealed by Tractography and Dissection,” Erica Andrews et al., Journal of Neuroscience (2022)
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/42/33/6392/tab-article-info
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“An Immense World” by Ed Yong
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Chapters:
00:00 cleo’s question
00:28 color vision 101
02:19 testing a dog
05:06 complications
06:23 what the nose knows
09:19 umwelt
10:23 credits