Hungarian and Mexican scientists have discovered that dogs are unable to recognize human faces. Brain
The Izvestia publication writes briefly about the study.Scientists scanned the brains of 20 domestic dogs. To do this, the animals lay motionless inside the MRI machine. They were shown four two-second videos. They showed either the face and back of a person's head, or the muzzle and withers of a dog. Scientists showed the same videos to 30 people whose brains were also scanned.
As the experiment showed, in people mostVisual networks in the brain are activated when they look at a person's face or a dog's face. When looking at the back of the head or withers, these networks are in a calm state.
The picture was different in dogs. When they looked at people's faces, no brain area was more active. It was the same when looking at the back of the head. But when the dogs looked at the faces of other dogs, some parts of their brain became activated.