Have you ever noticed your dog nuzzling closer when you’re sad, or wagging excitedly when you’re bursting with joy? It turns out, there’s real science behind those loving looks—your furry friend truly ...

Benito waited for his MRI scan at The Canine Brains Project at Harvard University. Led by Erin Hecht, the lab studies the dog brain through the use of MRI scans and other research tools.

This time, the scientists used EEG monitoring (I imagine it's pretty hard to get dogs to chill in an MRI machine) to examine the brain activity of dog-human pairs in different conditions over a ...

In a new study, scientists report that they have for the first time successfully trained dogs to lie awake and still in an MRI machine for 10 to 15 seconds, long enough to complete a scan.

Once the dogs were trained, the researchers put earphones on each dog and then let them listen to three types of sounds. The first were environmental noises (car sounds, phone ringing, whistles etc.).

Dogs and humans may synchronize their brain waves when they are interacting, according to new research. Photo-illustration by Newsweek The paper's authors wrote: "This study is the first to report ...