Most dog owners would give anything to know what their pet thinks about them - and a new study has set out to answer this burning question.
Animal cognition scientists at Emory University, in Georgia, America, trained a group of dogs to lie down long enough to send them into an MRI machine to figure out how they perceive their owners.
Using fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging), the team measured the dogs' neural responses to the smell of people and dogs, both familiar and unknown to them.
