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July 31, 2026Biological PsychologyOpen Access

Of dogs and men: Recognising one’s own dog engages the same neural processes as recognising personally familiar faces

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JMJakob MenkensJBJuliane BräuerGKGyula Kovács

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EEG study reveals familiarity processing is similar for human and dog faces, indicating shared neural mechanisms.

Key Points

  • This study aims to explore how the brain processes familiar faces compared to unfamiliar ones, specifically focusing on human and dog faces.
  • EEG study conducted with participants viewing familiar and unfamiliar human and dog faces.
  • Multivariate pattern analyses used to assess how familiarity affects neural responses over time.
  • Temporal generalization analysis examined early and later stages of familiarity processing.
  • Familiarity decodable from EEG data starting at 90 ms for both human and dog faces.
  • Category-specific processing occurs between 90-140 ms, shifting to category-independent processing after 180 ms.
  • These findings suggest familiarity is a general process relevant for both human and non-human face recognition.

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Menkens et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a6c46c0747664a1aa73bb4dhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2026.109359
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