Budapest, Oct 5 (AFP/APP):Faces are more important for humans than dogs, according to a brain activity study on how the two species see each other published by a team of Hungarian and Mexican researchers Monday. “The brain imaging findings in the study suggest that faces may be of crucial importance to humans and probably other primates, but not to all mammals, for example not for dogs,” Attila Andics, who led the study at Eotvos Lorand university in Budapest, told AFP. “The two species differ in their visual communication and this is reflected in their brains,” he said. A team of Hungary- and Mexico-based researchers compared how dog and human brains process visual information. They used scanners to monitor 30 humans and 20 dogs while they looked at short video clips of dog and human faces, and the backs of heads. The brain response results showed that a large part of the human brain’s neural network responds more to faces than non-faces in the videos. Only a small part responded more to human than dog images. In dogs’ brains however, no parts responded more to faces but some parts responded more to dog images than human images, said the study, published … Continue reading Faces more important for humans than dogs: study