The Mind of the Horse

Name: The Mind of the Horse | An Introduction to Equine Cognition
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An Introduction to Equine Cognition

Michel-Antoine Leblanc(Autor*in)

Harvard University Press

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Erschienen am 14. Mai 2014

464 Seiten

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Intro
Contents
Foreword To The French Edition
Foreword To The English Edition
Preface
1. What We Know About The Nature Of The Horse
Then and Now
Discovering the Real Life of Free-Ranging Horses
Equine Ethology Studies to Pursue
The Emergence of a New Field of Research: The Cognitive Ethology of the Horse
2. Equine Intelligence
A Rash of Clever Horses
3. Animal Intelligence, Cognition, And Representation
Intelligence and Cognition
Animal Behavior, Cognition, and Representation
4. The Equine Brain
Nervous Tissue and the General Organization of the Mammalian Nervous System
Brain and Mind in the Light of Evolution
5. The Nature Of Equine Perception
Perception: A Dynamic Process That Constructs the World
A Few Issues Regarding the Study of Equine Perception
6. The Anatomical And Physiological Basis Of Equine Visual Perception
Size, Arrangement of the Eyes, and Visual Field
Anatomical Structure of the Eye
A Short Tour of the Anatomy of the Retina
Structure of the Retina and Visual Quality
Optical Pathways and Cortical Distribution
Chromatic Theory and Color Perception
7. The Behavioral Exploration Of Equine Visual Perception: Perception Of Shapes And Movement
Experimental Procedures
Visual Acuity
The Visual Field
Night Vision
The Visual Apparatus: An Integrated System...
.In the Context of Cerebral Hemispheric Specialization
Perceiving the Third Dimension
Image Recognition
Object Recognition
Perceiving Movement
The Equine Visual Environment: Seen as a Whole or the Sum of Its Parts?
8. The Behavioral Exploration Of Equine Visual Perception: The Quest For Color Perception
Brightness: A Vexing Dimension
A Pioneering Study (Grzimek 1952)
An Inconclusive Replication (Pick et al. 1994)
An Apparent Confirmation of Grzimek's Results (Smith and Goldman 1999)
New Uncertainties Centering on Brightness (Macuda and Timney 1999)
The Evidence for a Neutral Point (Gelsbauer et al. 2004)
Color Preferences (Hall et al. 2005)
Do Horses Perceive the Entire Color Spectrum? (Hall et al. 2006)
The Neutral Point: Break or Continuity? (Roth, Balkenius, and Kelber 2007)
Equine Dichromacy: A Qualification (Hanggi, Ingersoll, and Waggoner 2007)
A New Experiment in Chromatic Discrimination (Blackmore et al. 2008)
How Well Do Horses Discriminate Color in Half-Light? (Roth, Balkenius, and Kelber 2008)
Colors That Can be Fairly Well Discriminated across the Light Spectrum (Timney and Macuda 2009)
A Provisional Summing Up
9. Hearing In Horses
Nature, Representation, and Characterization of Acoustic Information
The Equine Auditory System: Anatomy and Physiology
Behavioral Exploration of Equine Auditory Perception
10. Equine Chemical Perception: Odors, Pheromones, Tastes, And Flavors
Olfactory Perception in the Horse
From Taste to Flavor
11. Tactile Perception In The Horse
Structure and Function of Horse Skin
Receptors: Equine Sensory Pathways and Skin Sensitivity
Mutual Grooming and Neurophysiological Response
Tactile Stimulation and Interspecific Social Relationships
Conclusion
References
Acknowledgments
Index

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