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BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES
卷 55, 期 1, 页码 13-26出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(01)00158-9
关键词
asymmetry; hemispheric lateralisation; chimeric; face processing; expertise; inversion
Face recognition in sheep is qualitatively similar to that in humans in terms of its left visual field bias, and the effects of expertise and configural coding. The current study was designed to determine whether such effects are species specific by investigating the case of sheep recognising humans. It was found that the sheep could identify human faces and while they showed a small inversion-induced decline in discriminatory performance, this was significantly less than seen with sheep faces. In other aspects, there were qualitative differences with human face recognition compared with conspecific recognition. In contrast with sheep faces there was no left visual field advantage in the recognition of human faces and the internal features were not used at all as visual cues. The data suggest that these sheep, whilst being extensively exposed to interactions with humans, were unable to identify them with all the same 'expert' methods as were used to discriminate other sheep. This suggests that different neural systems may, to some extent, be used for recognition of sheep as opposed to human faces. The relative contribution to differential neural processing of the faces of the different species and the role of expertise are discussed. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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