Hungarian researchers want to reassure the human companions of dogs that they do care about you.<br />However, they don't particularly care for your face. In fact, CNN reports dogs can't even distinguish the front of your head from the back of it.<br />Instead, dogs use more information from smell or larger parts of the body to identify people.<br />Despite lacking specialized neural machinery to process faces, dogs nevertheless excel at eye contact, following gaze, and reading emotions from faces.<br />The researchers say that as dogs domesticated, they learned that reading facial cues meant survival, even though they lacked a specific region in the brain to do so.
