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Your dog’s brain doesn’t care about your face
It’s just not in dogs’ DNA to care about human faces, a new study has found. And there’s no area in their brain designed to distinguish between the back or front of someone’s head.
Researchers measured brain activity in dogs and humans as they showed them videos of faces and backs of heads, said a press release from Eötvös Loránd University, in Hungary. While faces are
Experiments involving functional magnetic resonance imaging(FMRI,功能性磁共振成像)on 20 dogs were carried out at Eötvös Loránd University and the National Autonomous University of Mexico. These two
Results have revealed large specialized neural networks(神经网络)in human brains that are used to distinguish faces from non-faces. In dogs there are no brain regions that
Dogs,
The full study, described by researchers as the first one of its kind, was published in the Journal of Neuroscience.
Andics said that dogs do care about human faces, even if their brains aren’t specifically tuned in to them. “I think it is amazing that, despite
“During domestication(驯养), dogs adapted to the human
Researchers will now compare how dog and human brains
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