title: Face facts: Even nonhuman animals discriminate human faces.
abstract: Humans are commonly believed to have evolved specially adapted neural systems for processing the rich and complex content of faces. However, nonhuman animals-including fish-have also shown a well-developed capacity for discriminating human faces, raising important questions concerning the uniqueness and mechanisms of human face perception.
authors.affiliation: The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA. ed-wasserman@uiowa.edu.
authors.forename: Edward A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Wasserman
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005145:Face; D005399:Fishes; D014796:Visual Perception
keywords: Comparative cognition; Evolution; Face perception; Neural systems