THE BRAIN ASSESSES THE EVENT

(Part of the Memory flow chart of the DOG-GAMES website)

Nature has given dogs (and other animals) the ability to assess experiences in a fraction of a second to determine whether the information gained from their senses is either -

a rewarding event that will help the dog to survive.
threatening to the dog's safety or well-being
or is neither of the above and therefore trivial and irrelevant to the dog's survival.

However, as we will see by following the various parts of the flow chart, each dog's perceptions of the same Event can be totally different depending on -