My Process of Finding Academic Articles

For the end of Week 4, we were tasked with finding two academic articles about our topic of choice. I have decided to go with canines for my research, so for the two articles this week, they were both related to dogs and brain cognition.

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My first article was found using the internet (Google Scholar). It is called "Epilepsy is more than a simple seizure disorder: Parallels between human and canine cognitive and behavioural comorbidities."

Citation: Peek, Saskia I., et al. “Epilepsy Is More than a Simple Seizure Disorder: Parallels between Human and Canine Cognitive and Behavioural Comorbidities.” Veterinary Journal (London, England: 1997), vol. 303, no. 106060, 2024, p. 106060, doi:10.1016/j.tvjl.2023.106060.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090023323001119

This article was found by using the advanced search on Google Scholar. I used the keywords "canine," "cognition," and "brain" to try and find results most closely to what I was looking for. In addition, I applied the "most recent" feature to find articles that would be relevant to the current times. In the article, the researcher talks about different tests with dogs including less human owner training and its affect on epilepsy and reduced cognition in dogs. In the end of the article, they concluded that more research needs to be done in order to fully understand some of the brain disorders in dogs, however there is strong correlation between behavior and cognitive abilities in dogs. Overall, I think that I could tell a story with this article because there is a lot of material to work with. The protagonist for this story would be the dogs because they are the main focus of the article.

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My second article was found using the UC Library database and was academically searched. The name of this article is "Two Separate Brain Networks for Predicting Trainability and Tracking Training-Related Plasticity in Working Dogs."

Citation: Deshpande, Gopikrishna, et al. “Two Separate Brain Networks for Predicting Trainability and Tracking Training-Related Plasticity in Working Dogs.” Animals: An Open Access Journal from MDPI, vol. 14, no. 7, 2024, p. 1082, doi:10.3390/ani14071082.

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/14/7/1082

I used the advanced search UC Library to find this article and used the same keywords as I did for the first article. In this article, the researchers used formal detector dog training and programs of maintenance training for detection work to find out if dogs had resting state between the brain and behavior. The overall findings of this article were that phylogeny and ontogeny in dogs produce two functional neural networks that are for the most part dissociated. This article could be used to tell a story because there is enough material and data to write a cohesive narrative. In this one, I believe the researcher would be the main protagonist because it is more about studies on dogs than looking at it from the dogs' perspective.