Cows visually discriminate and cross-modally recognise familiar and unfamiliar human faces in videos

Océane Amichaud; Julie Lemarchand; Fabien Cornilleau; Plotine Jardat; Vitor H. B. Ferreira; Ludovic Calandreau; Léa Lansade

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0329529

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Cows visually discriminate and cross-modally recognise familiar and unfamiliar human faces in videos

Océane Amichaud ,

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: oceane.amichaud@inrae.fr (OA); lea.lansade@inrae.fr (LL)

Affiliation INRAE, CNRS, Université de Tours, Centre Val de Loire UMR Physiologie de la Reproduction et des Comportements, Nouzilly, France

https://orcid.org/0009-0006-8788-5770

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Julie Lemarchand,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation INRAE, CNRS, Université de Tours, Centre Val de Loire UMR Physiologie de la Reproduction et des Comportements, Nouzilly, France
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Fabien Cornilleau,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation INRAE, CNRS, Université de Tours, Centre Val de Loire UMR Physiologie de la Reproduction et des Comportements, Nouzilly, France
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Plotine Jardat,

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation INRAE, CNRS, Université de Tours, Centre Val de Loire UMR Physiologie de la Reproduction et des Comportements, Nouzilly, France

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0374-5588

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Vitor H. B. Ferreira,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation INRAE, CNRS, Université de Tours, Centre Val de Loire UMR Physiologie de la Reproduction et des Comportements, Nouzilly, France

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7752-2382

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Ludovic Calandreau,

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation INRAE, CNRS, Université de Tours, Centre Val de Loire UMR Physiologie de la Reproduction et des Comportements, Nouzilly, France
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Léa Lansade

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: oceane.amichaud@inrae.fr (OA); lea.lansade@inrae.fr (LL)

Affiliation INRAE, CNRS, Université de Tours, Centre Val de Loire UMR Physiologie de la Reproduction et des Comportements, Nouzilly, France
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Cows visually discriminate and cross-modally recognise familiar and unfamiliar human faces in videos

Océane Amichaud,
Julie Lemarchand,
Fabien Cornilleau,
Plotine Jardat,
Vitor H. B. Ferreira,
Ludovic Calandreau,
Léa Lansade

Published: May 20, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0329529

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