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ArticleJournal of biophotonics2025

Sensing Dog Brain Reactions to Smell by AI Speckle Pattern Analysis.

Ilana Propp, Marianna Beiderman, Sergey Agdarov, Yafim Beiderman, Maxi Blum, Zeev Zalevsky

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Article in Journal of biophotonics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. The Role of Olfaction in Dogs: Evolution, Biology, and Human-Oriented Work.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Ilana ProppFaculty of Engineering and the Nanotechnology Center, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.ORCID 0009-0008-4390-0144
Marianna BeidermanFaculty of Engineering, Ruppin Academic Center, Kfar Monash, Israel.
Sergey AgdarovFaculty of Engineering and the Nanotechnology Center, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Yafim BeidermanFaculty of Engineering and the Nanotechnology Center, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Maxi BlumFaculty of Engineering and the Nanotechnology Center, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Zeev ZalevskyFaculty of Engineering and the Nanotechnology Center, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Investigation of a dog's brain activity related to their outstanding olfactory capabilities has been a topic of interest among researchers. For this specific study, we identified three areas of the brain that have been shown in previous studies to be relevant during the process of smell discrimination in dogs: the olfactory bulb, hippocampus, and amygdala. We set up a detection structure system based on laser and a camera to capture speckle patterns on the three regions in four dog breeds for smell stimuli: garlic, menthol, alcohol, and marijuana. The results were analyzed using an XGBoost model. Our analysis revealed that the amygdala plays a crucial role in scent differentiation. Our work offers insight into leveraging the features that characterize distinct scents in the canine brain, paving the way for developing a compact device that can interpret and translate a dog's olfactory perceptions for human understanding.

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BrainSmellAnimalsDogsOdorants

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PMID40066507
PMCPMC12162165

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