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Horses - Psychology (Latest Articles)
Latest indexed articles for 'Horses - Psychology'
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Horse (Equus caballus) whinnies: a source of social information.
16 May 2009 
Many animal species that rely mainly on calls to communicate produce individual acoustic structures, but we wondered whether individuals of species better known as visual communicants, with small vocal repertoires, would also exhibit individual ...
rec_pub_19449192-horse-equus-caballus-whinnies-source-social-information.htm
Introduction. Equitation Science.
27 Apr 2009 
rec_pub_19406675-introduction-equitation-science.htm
How equitation science can elucidate and refine horsemanship techniques.
23 Apr 2009 The long-held belief that human dominance and equine submission are key to successful training and that the horse must be taught to 'respect' the trainer infers that force is often used during training. Many horses respond by trialling unwelcome ...
rec_pub_19394880-how-equitation-science-elucidate-refine-horsemanship-techniques.htm
Investigating horse-human interactions: the effect of a nervous human.
23 Apr 2009 The heart rates (HR) of horses and the people leading them (10 horses, 20 people), and riding them (17 horses, 17 people), were recorded in an indoor arena. The horses were Swedish leisure horses of mixed ages, sex and breed. All except two of the ...
rec_pub_19394879-investigating-horse-human-interactions-effect-nervous-human.htm
Horses (Equus caballus) select the greater of two quantities in small numerical contrasts.
21 Apr 2009 The ability to select the greater numerosity over another in small sets seems to stem from the calculation of which set contains more, and has been taken as evidence of a primordial representation at the roots of the primate numerical system. We ...
rec_pub_19387706-horses-equus-caballus-select-greater-two-quantities-small-numerical.htm
Assessing equine prospective memory in a Y-maze apparatus.
21 Apr 2009 Eight horses were tested in a Y-maze to see if they would approach the side on which they had seen and heard food being delivered into a food trough. The horses were tested in five experimental contexts: immediate release (IR), delayed release 3s ...
rec_pub_19398355-assessing-equine-prospective-memory-y-maze-apparatus.htm
How horses (Equus caballus) see the world: humans as significant "objects".
19 Apr 2009 This study aimed to determine whether horses have a kind of memory of humans (based on previous interactions), leading to a general significance of humans revealed by their reactions to humans in subsequent interactions. Subjects were 59 adult ...
rec_pub_19381698-how-horses-equus-caballus-world-humans-significant-objects.htm
15 Apr 2009 This article examines the recently completed equid ethogram and shows how analogues of social interactions between horses may occur in various human-horse interactions. It discusses how some specific horse-horse interactions have a corresponding ...
rec_pub_19375965-the-horse-human-dyad-align-horse-training-handling-activities-equid.htm
SMART: Sensitivity models for animals in response to training.
15 Apr 2009 Trained responses are said to be under stimulus control when they appear reliably and exclusively on cue. The SMART system is a conceptual, three-dimensional graphic that uses four quadrants to chart a horse's responsiveness to various cues from two ...
rec_pub_19375963-smart-sensitivity-models-animals-response-training.htm
Policy Delphi with vignette methodology as a tool to evaluate the perception of equine welfare.
15 Apr 2009 A three-round Policy Delphi using vignette methodology was employed as a new approach to study stakeholder perceptions and experiences of equine welfare. Forty-four representatives from stakeholder groups in the Irish equine industry participated. ...
rec_pub_19375962-policy-delphi-vignette-methodology-tool-evaluate-perception-equine.htm
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