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 …