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"Volume 129, Issue 2, Pages 83-91 (31 January 2011)
Object Recognition and Generalization During Habituation in Horses
Janne Winther Christensena, Tatjana Zharkikhb, Elodie Chovauxc
Accepted 25 November 2010. published online 27 December 2010.
Abstract
The ability of horses to habituate to frightening stimuli greatly increases safety in the horse-human relationship. A recent experiment suggested, however, that habituation to frightening visual stimuli is relatively stimulus-specific in horses and that shape and colour are important factors for object generalisation (Christensen et al., 2008). ...The results demonstrate that it is possible to increase object generalisation in horses by habituating them to a range of colours and shapes simultaneously. This knowledge greatly affects the way in which horses may be trained to react calmly towards frightening objects."
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