Equine learning behaviour

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-13

  Murphy, Jack ^a   Arkins, Sean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Horse; Learning; Memory; Processes

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOMESTIC SPECIES; HORSE; LEARNING; MEMORY; PERCEPTION; TRAINING; VISION; VISUAL CUE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CARE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ATHLETE; ATTENTION; CAT; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOG; HABITUATION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HEN; HORSE; HUMAN RELATION; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; REINFORCEMENT; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPORT; STRESS; SWINE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BONDING, HUMAN-PET; COGNITION; HORSES; HUMANS; LEARNING; MEMORY; PERCEPTION; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VISION;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 34547497848     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2006.06.009     Document Type: Review

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