The new study shows: This is why dogs understand us humans so well.

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“This highlights the close bond between dogs and humans,” said Ludwig Huber of the Messerli Research Institute in Vienna, from the university on Tuesday: “The two species may not be closely related, but they have been close friends for thousands of years.” year.”

A team led by Magdalena Boch and Ludwig Huber of the Institute for Cognition, Emotion and Methods in Psychology at the University of Vienna trained fifteen dogs to stay comfortable in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) device. “The dogs were never sedated and could leave the MRT at any time,” the researchers write. They showed animals and 40 people pictures of faces and postures.

As a result, brain regions specifically specialized for facial perception have become active in humans, they say: “When we humans communicate with others, we usually focus on the face.” Dogs also pay attention to the face, but more to the posture. “Holistic perception seems to play an important role for them,” explained Boch.

Similar to humans and their close relatives (primates), dogs have a brain region in the temporal lobe specialized for visual perception of posture, the researchers said. Although the canine and human temporal lobes evolved completely independently of each other, they apparently came to very similar conclusions. (SDA)

Source : Blick