PSYO 2160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Detection Dog, Wildlife Conservation, Silicone Oil
20 Jan 2016
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Pest and alien species detection: bed bugs, termites etc. Search and rescue: avalanche dogs, cadaver dogs. Built in computer in brain and process it. Calibration system: shows the detection when it finds it. Mobile: walk in all types of terrain on their own. 1989, williams and pembroke: woman"s dog kept sniffing at a mole on her leg got it checked, it was skin cancer. Diseases may have signature scents, voc (volatile organic. Empirical studies of detection of cancer by sniffer dogs. Melanoma detection: trained 2 dogs to detect melanoma. Tube with tissues inside, had dog search and find the tube. Horvath et al (2008) ovarian cancer detection. Presented dog with multiple rags, one containing cancerous ovarian tissue. Presented cancerous sample in glass jar inside a wooden box. Gradually increased the difficulty by presenting additional boxes containing jars with different tissues (abdominal tissues, small bowel tissues, different tumorous gynaecological tissues) Box tests tissue presented in series of boxes.
