Do you see what I see? Testing horses' ability to recognise real-life objects from 2D computer projections.

ABSTRACT: The use of 2-dimensional representations (e.g. photographs or digital images) of real-life physical objects has been an important tool in studies of animal cognition. Horses are reported to recognise objects and individuals (conspecifics and humans) from printed photographs, but it is unclear whether image recognition is also true for digital images, e.g. computer projections. We expected that horses trained to discriminate between two real-life objects would show the same learnt response to digital images of these objects indicating that the images were perceived as objects, or representations of such. Riding-school horses (N = 27) learnt to touch one of two objects (target object counterbalanced between horses) to instantly receive a food reward. After discrimination learning (three cons

SUBMITTER: Kappel S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9980859 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature