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Exploration + Exploitation = Resilience + Confidence over Time

"When we understand how the brain works and regulates its body to move efficiently in the environment, we stop asking how to control a dog's behaviour and start asking how to create the conditions in which natural behaviour emerges in cooperation alongside us humans." Bono f Beeler
Training is great to manipulate sequences of movements. But to help change a dogs behaviour patterns, feelings and perceptions of the world it moves in; the dogs' physical & mental states need to adapt. Feelings and physical states are deeply individual experiences for any animal. We have no direct access to them, as dogs can't tell us via spoken words. Thus, Neuropark is a novel but safe place were we can observe dogs, to gather more understanding, help them recover and gain confidence through exploration & exploitation cycles (active inference).
It is through a brains' sensory expectations and predicted action patterns in the world its body moves in, that affords learning & memory consolidation.

Archie
Physio Station 3 - "STEPS"

Elena working with Sammie
Physio Station 7 - "BIG RAMP"

The Maze
For dogs to explore& exploit to gain confidence & resilience

Cash
Checking out Station 6b - "ROCKS"

Rosie
Station 11 - "MIKADO STICKS"

Bono & Loren
Scent Discrimination
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