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Originally Posted by Vivisectus
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Originally Posted by peacegirl
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Originally Posted by Vivisectus
Hey check this out:
If you show a dog 2 images of a happy face and an angry face, and then play a sound of an angry voice, the dog looks at the angry picture.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...edium=facebook
This indicates that dogs do not just respond in a learned way to certain behaviors: they are actually able to recognize different sensory cues and know that they go with certain emotional states.
Dogs can actually read facial expressions. Pretty amazing. |
It's not surprising to me that a dog would know when another dog is angry by his growl and his snarl where his teeth are showing. If a dog sees a snarl even without the sound of his growl, he would probably back off. As far as dogs being able to match a human emotion in a picture with the sound of a person's voice, I have my doubts that these experiments are accurate. Regardless, this has nothing to do with being able to identify familiar individuals by sight alone and it most certainly does not prove Lessans wrong. For the lurkers in here, watch the vitriol that follows this post and you'll see that this is all they can offer because they have nothing else. This is due to the fact that their position is weak, or they wouldn't have to resort to these kinds of remarks. |
No you doofus - human faces and human voices. It would be pretty unsurprising if a dog could spot visual signals in their own species.
The amazing thing is that they match the right sounds up to the right kinda faces, without any prior training or getting used to the test. They are matching angry voices to angry faces happy voices to happy faces.
They are apparently able to read expressions.
So in terms of your theory, does that mean that they have a concept of "happy" that they are projecting on to peoples faces? |
Are you calling me a doofus? Forget it Vivisectus. We're done!