Equine learning behaviour: Common knowledge and systematic research

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 24-26

  Cooper, Jonathan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; HORSE; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; RESEARCH;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COGNITION; DIET RESTRICTION; FOOD PREFERENCE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HORSE; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TASTE AVERSION; TRAINING; VISION;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 34547543909     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2006.12.009     Document Type: Note

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