The Mind of the Horse

• 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
  
  • Are Horses Smart? One Question, Several Answers
  • 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 (Geisbauer 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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