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One aspect of Prof Keith Kendrick’s research is the study of how sheep detect and respond to emotional cues in the faces and voices of both other animals and humans.
Prof Kendrick’s team is combining behavioural and neurophysiological approaches to establish how the sheep brain is organised, such that both individual sheep and humans can be recognised as well as the emotional signals they are conveying.
Sheep are an important model to help us understand the ways in which the human brain functions, due to the similarities in how both sheep and human brains process faces and emotions. The integration of identity and emotion processing within the brain typically breaks down in human affective disorders such as autism and schizophrenia, so this work on sheep may help us better understand why these conditions occur.
For more information about Prof Kendrick’s research, visit a recent article on BBC Online.
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