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Author(s):  
Joan-Bryce Burla ◽  
Janina Siegwart ◽  
Christian Nawroth

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.


2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn M. Palmquist ◽  
Rachel Keen ◽  
Vikram K. Jaswal

2017 ◽  
pp. 156-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Freksa ◽  
Thomas Barkowsky ◽  
Frank Dylla ◽  
Zoe Falomir ◽  
Ana-Maria Olteţeanu ◽  
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2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 528-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria A. Roach ◽  
Graham M. Fraser ◽  
James H. Kryklywy ◽  
Derek G.V. Mitchell ◽  
Timothy D. Wilson

Author(s):  
Christian Freksa ◽  
Ana-Maria Olteţeanu ◽  
Thomas Barkowsky ◽  
Jasper van de Ven ◽  
Holger Schultheis

Gesture ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fey Parrill ◽  
John Cabot ◽  
Hannah Kent ◽  
Kelly Chen ◽  
Ann Payneau

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.


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

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