Cognitie en leren

Cognitie en leren

• Assessment of positive emotions in animals to improve their welfare (pdf)
• Cross-Species Affective Neuroscience Decoding of the Primal Affective Experiences of Humans and Related Animals (not on horses, but on emotions in all animals)

Cognition

• Ability of ponies to discriminate between photographs of two similarly dressed people
• An investigation of colour discrimination with horses (Equus caballus)
• A preliminary study of the relationship between discrimination reversal learning and performance tasks in yearling and 2-year-old horses
• A preliminary study on the long-term interest of horses in ropes and Jolly Balls
• Are results of Crib Opening Test connected with efficacy of training horses in a round-pen?
• Assessing equine prospective memory in a Y-maze apparatus
• Categorization learning in the horse
• Color discrimination in horses
• Cognitive testing in horses using a computer based apparatus
• Cue use by foals (Equus caballus) in a discrimination learning task (pdf)
• Detour behaviour in horses (Equus caballus) (pdf)
• Discrimination learning and concept formation in the Arabian horse (pdf)
• Discrimination learning based on relative size concepts in horses (Equus caballus)
• Discrimination reversal learning in yearling horses (pdf)
• Do horses generalise between objects during habituation?
• Do Horses Have a Concept of Person? (pdf)
• Equine learning Behaviour
• Equine learning: progress and suggestions for future research
• Encoding the Object Position for Assessment of Short Term Spatial Memory in Horses (pdf, from page 45)
• Evaluation of a one-trial learning apparatus to test learning ability in weanling horses
• Following human-given cues or not? Horses (Equus caballus) get smarter and change strategy in a delayed three choice task
• Generalization of a tactile stimulus in horses (pdf)
• Horses select the greater of two quantities in small numerical contrasts
• Human facial discrimination in horses: can they tell us apart?
• Impact of spatial memory on habitat use (pdf, not just on horses)
• Long-term memory for categories and concepts in horses (Equus caballus)
• Measurement of the attention time in the horse
• Object recognition and generalisation during habituation in horses
• Pattern discrimination, learning set, and memory in a pony (Dixon 1966)
• Pattern discrimination, learning set formation, memory retention, spatial and visual reversal learning by the horse (1975. pdf)
• Preliminary Investigation of equine learning and memory
• Relational discrimination learning in horses
• Repeatability and comparison of two maze tests to measure learning ability in horses (pdf)
• Responses of horses to novel visual, olfactory and auditory stimuli
• Responses of horses to the same signal in different positions
• Rotated object recognition in four domestic horses
• Short-term Memory Testing in Domestic Horses: Experimental Design Plays a Role
• Short-term spatial memory in the domestic horse
• Stimulus discrimination by horses under scotopic conditions
• Stimulus generalization, discrimination learning and peak shift in horses (pdf)
• The effect of stimulus height on visual discrimination in horses (pdf)
• The responses of horses in a discrimination problem
• The use of a maze in testing learning and memory in horses
• Understanding the perceptual world of horses
• Utilization of previously learned stimuli to solve novel tasks

Social learning

• Attributing attention: the use of human-given cues by domestic horses (Equus caballus) (pdf)
• Comprehension of human pointing gestures in horses (Equus caballus)
• Cross-modal individual recognition in domestic horses (Equus caballus) (pdf)
• Cross-modal individual recognition in domestic horses (Equus caballus) extends to familiar humans
• Do Horses Expect Humans to Solve Their Problems? (full)
• Do Horses Have a Concept of Person? (pdf)
• Do soothing vocal cues enhance horses’ ability to learn a frightening task?
• Effects of observational learning on acquisition of an operant response in horses
• Effects of observational learning on food selection in horses
• Horse sense: social status of horses (Equus caballus) affects their likelihood of copying other horses’ behavior (pdf)
• Horses (Equus caballus) use human local enhancement cues and adjust to human attention
• How horses (Equus caballus) see the world: humans as significant objects (pdf)
• Observation effects on learning in horses
• Observational learning in horses
• Social facilitation in the horse (Equus caballus)
• Social facilitation of feeding and time budgets in stabled ponies (pdf)
• The ability of horses to learn an instrumental task through social observation
• The use of human-given cues by domestic horses, Equus caballus, during an object choice task (pdf)
• Too close for comfort? The effects of social facilitation on feeding behaviour in the horse (sorry! the link to the pdf disappeared)
• Use of human-given cues by domestic dogs (Canis familiaris)
  and horses (Equus caballus) (pdf)

Influences on learning

See also: Training Methods

• An investigation into the effect of floor colour on the behaviour of the horse
• Avoidance, maze learning and social dominance in ponies (pdf)
• Can a horse learn while under the influence of a tranquilizer? (pdf)
• Controlled Study of Early Handling and Training of Icelandic Foals
• Determination of Gender Differences in Trainability in Yearlings
• Determination of sex differences in personality and trainability of yearling horses utilizing a handler questionnaire
• Differential outcome effect in the horse (pdf)
• Does learning performance in horses relate to fearfulness, baseline stress hormone, and social rank?
• Do soothing vocal cues enhance horses’ ability to learn a frightening task?
• Effect of early experience on the learning ability of yearling horses (pdf)
• Effects of neonatal handling on subsequent manageability, reactivity and learning ability of foals (pdf)
• Effects of observational learning on acquisition of an operant response in horses
• Effects of observational learning on food selection in horses
• Effects of varying amounts of early handling at weaning and later ages on the subsequent learning ability of two-year-old horses
• Equine learning behaviour: accounting for ecological constraints and relationships with humans in experimental design (pdf)
• Feeding grain decreases training effectiveness in 2-year-old quarter horses (pdf)
• Horses’ learning performances are under the influence of several temperamental dimensions (pdf)
• Horse sense: social status of horses (Equus caballus) affects their likelihood of copying other horses’ behavior (pdf)
• Horses use human local enhancement cues and adjust to human attention
• Horses use procedural learning rather than conceptual learning to solve matching to sample
• Learning ability of orphan foals, of normal foals and of their mothers (pdf)
• Impaired instrumental choice in crib-biting horses
• Imprinting training and conditioned taste aversion
• Influence of handling during different ages on a halter training test in foals
• Influence of preweaning handling on post-weaning learning ability
• Learning and memorisation of two different tasks in horses: the effects of age, sex and sire
• Lower learning abilities in stereotypic horses
• Matching by horses on several concurrent variable-interval schedules
• Motivation for social contact in horses measured by operant conditioning
• Relationship between number of conditioning trials per training session and avoidance learning in horses
• Responses of Horses of Various Breeds to a Sympathetic Training Method
• Sex differences in equine learning skills and visuo-spatial ability
• Social hierarchy in exercised and untrained group-housed horses
• Social learning and stereotypy in horses
• Stress Modulates Instrumental Learning Performances in Horses (Equus caballus) in Interaction with Temperament (pdf)
• The Effects of Age on Discrimination Reversal Learning In Horses (powerpoint pdf)
• The effect of body condition of horses on discrimination learning abilities
• The effect of training schedule on learned tasks in yearling horses
• The effect of varying temporal distribution of conditioning trials on equine learning behavior (pdf)
• The effects of handling at different ages on the subsequent learning ability of 2-year-old horses
• The impact of visual perception on equine learning
• The influence of early handling on the behavioural reaction of foals at 2 months of age
• The influence of handling during different ages on a halter training test in foals