"Aquaculture, not the Internet, represents the most promising investment opportunity of the 21st Century."
- Peter Drucker, Management Expert & Economist
2016-06-09
Fish Can Recognise Human Faces
Research found that archerfish were able to learn and recognize faces with a high degree of accuracy -- an impressive feat, given this task requires sophisticated visual recognition capabilities.
It has been hypothesized that this task is so difficult that it can only
be accomplished by primates, which have a large and complex brain. The
fact that the human brain has a specialized region used for recognizing
human faces suggests that there may be something special about faces
themselves. To test this idea, we wanted to determine if another animal
with a smaller and simpler brain, and with no evolutionary need to
recognize human faces, was still able to do so.
The researchers found that fish, which lack the sophisticated visual
cortex of primates, are nevertheless capable of discriminating one face
from up to 44 new faces. The research provides evidence that fish
(vertebrates lacking a major part of the brain called the neocortex)
have impressive visual discrimination abilities.
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