A preliminary study of the relationship between discrimination reversal learning and performance tasks in yearling and 2-year-old horses

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 157-166

  Sappington, B K F ^a   McCall, C A ^b   Coleman, D A ^b   Kuhlers, D L ^b   Lishak, R S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Horse; Learning; Training

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030918459     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1591(96)01157-4     Document Type: Article

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