Horses recognise their owners from their voices and create a mental picture of familiar humans


"Scientists at the University of Sussex have previously revealed the animals recognise members of their herd in this way, and also single out humans in this way, even though they look and sound very different to themselves.

When humans hear a familiar voice they form a mental picture of who spoke by matching visual and auditory cues.

This 'crossmodal' perception involving interactions between two or more different senses was once believed to have been a purely human trait."

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