scholarly journals Human Demonstration Does Not Facilitate the Performance of Horses (Equus caballus) in a Spatial Problem-Solving Task

Animals ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan-Bryce Burla ◽  
Janina Siegwart ◽  
Christian Nawroth
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Equus Caballus ◽  
Spatial Problem ◽  
Problem Solving Task ◽  
Human Demonstration ◽  
Spatial Problem Solving

scholarly journals Human Demonstration Does not Facilitate the Performance of Horses (Equus caballus) in a Spatial Problem-Solving Task

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan-Bryce Burla ◽  
Janina Siegwart ◽  
Christian Nawroth
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Social Learning ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Spatial Problem ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Impact ◽  
And Training ◽  
Problem Solving Task ◽  
Human Demonstration ◽  
Spatial Problem Solving

Horses’ ability to adapt to new environments and to acquire new information plays an important role in handling and training. Social learning in particular would be very adaptive for horses as it enables them to flexibly adapt to new environments. In the context of horse handling, social learning from humans has been rarely investigated but could help to facilitate management practices. We assessed the impact of human demonstration on spatial problem-solving abilities in horses using a detour task. In this task, a bucket with a food reward was placed behind a double-detour barrier and horses (n = 16) received a human demonstration or no demonstration. Horses were allocated to two test groups of 8 horses each, which experienced the two treatments in a counterbalanced order. We found that horses did not solve the detour task faster with human demonstration. However, both test groups improved rapidly over trials. Our results suggest that horses prefer to use individual rather than social information when being confronted with a spatial problem-solving task.

Do people gesture more when instructed to?

Gesture ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fey Parrill ◽  
John Cabot ◽  
Hannah Kent ◽  
Kelly Chen ◽  
Ann Payneau
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Spatial Problem ◽  
Natural Behavior ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Problem Solving Task ◽  
Spatial Problem Solving

Does being instructed to gesture encourage those with low gesture rates to produce more gestures? If participants do gesture more when asked to, do they produce the same kinds of gestures? Does this vary as a function of the type of discourse being produced? We asked participants to take part in three tasks, a quasi-conversational task, a spatial problem solving task, and a narrative task, in two phases. In the first they received no instruction, and in the second they were asked to gesture. The instruction to gesture did not change gesture rate or gesture type across phases. We suggest that while explicitly asking participants to gesture may not always achieve higher gesture rates, it also does not negatively impact natural behavior.

Role of the medial and lateral septum in a variable goal spatial problem solving task

1991 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 739-744 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen A. Fraser ◽  
Bruno Poucet ◽  
Gary Partlow ◽  
Thom Herrmann
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Lateral Septum ◽  
Spatial Problem ◽  
Problem Solving Task ◽  
Spatial Problem Solving

scholarly journals Goats learn socially from humans in a spatial problem-solving task

2016 ◽  
Vol 121 ◽  
pp. 123-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Nawroth ◽  
Luigi Baciadonna ◽  
Alan G. McElligott
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Spatial Problem ◽  
Problem Solving Task ◽  
Spatial Problem Solving
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