Horses’ ability to remember people’s previous facial expressions/why they look left
Neurosafari Researchers have found that horses are able to read and remember the emotional states of people’s faces.
A study by the University of Sussex and Portsmouth shows that horses can infer and then remember the emotional states of people, enabling them to use this information to identify people who may pose a threat. Potentially create.
According to Neurosafari from the University of Sussex, on Thursday, April 26, 2018, in Current Biology magazine, an article titled “Animals remember previous facial expressions that specific humans have exhibited” It was published by a group of psychologists led by Professor Karen McComb of the University of Sussex and Dr. Leanne Proops of the University of Portsmouth, animal behavior experts.
Study design
The research team conducted controlled experiments in which domestic horses were exposed to photographs of angry or happy human faces, and a few hours later the person representing the state (face) in a neutral (emotionally) state. they saw The same amount of short-term exposure to the person’s photo was enough to create clear differences in subsequent reactions after seeing the person himself on the same day.
Review results
This study showed that despite the person having a neutral posture during the encounter with the horse, the horse’s gaze direction indicated that if they had previously seen the person in an angry rather than happy photo, they would have a more negative inference of the person. Previous research, including at the University of Sussex, has shown that animals tend to view negative events with the left eye due to the specialization of the right hemisphere of the brain in processing threat stimuli (information from the left eye is processed in the right hemisphere). Continue on the website: goo.gl/YJe1yp
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