Horses give functionally relevant responses to human facial expressions of emotion: a response to Schmoll (2016).
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Publication Date: 2016-09-15 PubMed ID: 27624798PubMed Central: PMC5046936DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0549Google Scholar: Lookup
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Smith AV, Proops L, Grounds K, Wathan J, McComb K.
(2016).
Horses give functionally relevant responses to human facial expressions of emotion: a response to Schmoll (2016).
Biol Lett, 12(9), 20160549.
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0549 Publication
Researcher Affiliations
- Mammal Vocal Communication and Cognition Research Group, School of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK a.v.smith@sussex.ac.uk.
- Mammal Vocal Communication and Cognition Research Group, School of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK.
- Mammal Vocal Communication and Cognition Research Group, School of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK.
- Mammal Vocal Communication and Cognition Research Group, School of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK.
- Mammal Vocal Communication and Cognition Research Group, School of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK karenm@sussex.ac.uk.
MeSH Terms
- Animals
- Emotions
- Facial Expression
- Horses
- Humans
References
This article includes 5 references
- Schmoll T. Can horses read emotional cues from human faces? Re-analysis of Smith et al. (2016).. Biol Lett 2016 Sep;12(9).
- Smith AV, Proops L, Grounds K, Wathan J, McComb K. Functionally relevant responses to human facial expressions of emotion in the domestic horse (Equus caballus).. Biol Lett 2016 Feb;12(2):20150907.
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- Wathan J, McComb K. The eyes and ears are visual indicators of attention in domestic horses.. Curr Biol 2014 Aug 4;24(15):R677-9.
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