Editing Dog intelligence (section)

== Perception ==
{{Further|Dog anatomy#Senses|Animal cognition|Perception}}
[[Perception]] refers to mental processes through which incoming sensory information is organized and interpreted in order to represent and understand the environment.<ref>{{cite book |last=Schacter|first=Daniel|title=Psychology|url=https://archive.org/details/psychology0000scha|url-access=registration|year=2011|publisher=Worth Publishers|isbn=9781429237192}}</ref> Perception includes such processes as the selection of information through attention, the organization of sensory information through grouping, and the identification of events and objects. In the dog, olfactory information (the sense of smell) is particularly salient (compared with humans) but the dog's senses also include vision, hearing, taste, touch and [[proprioception]]. There is also evidence that dogs sense the [[Earth's magnetic field]].

One researcher has proposed that dogs perceive the passing of time through the dissipation of smells.<ref>{{cite book |first=Alexandra |last=Horowitz |title=Being a Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell |publisher=Scribner New York|year=2016|chapter=2-Smeller|page=29}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Melissa |last=Dahl |title=Apparently Dogs Can Tell Time With Their Noses |publisher=The Science of Us - NYMag |year=2016 |url=http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/10/an-incredible-thing-dogs-can-do-with-their-noses-tell-time.html}}</ref>