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Author | McComb, K. | ||||
Title | Social cognition and emotional awareness: studies on elephants and horses | Type | Conference Article | ||
Year | 2015 | Publication | Proceedings of the 3. International Equine Science Meeting | Abbreviated Journal | Proc. 3. Int. Equine. Sci. Mtg |
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Publisher | Xenophon Publishing | Place of Publication | Wald | Editor | Krueger, K. |
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Series Editor | Series Title | Abbreviated Series Title | Proc. 3. Int. Equine. Sci. Mtg | ||
Series Volume | in prep | Series Issue | Edition | ||
ISSN | ISBN | 978-3-95625-000-2 | Medium | ||
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Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 5800 | ||
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Author | Smith, A.V.; Proops, L.; Grounds, K.; Wathan, J.; McComb, K. | ||||
Title | Functionally relevant responses to human facial expressions of emotion in the domestic horse (Equus caballus) | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2016 | Publication | Biology Letters | Abbreviated Journal | Biol. Lett. |
Volume | 12 | Issue | 2 | Pages | |
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Abstract | Whether non-human animals can recognize human signals, including emotions, has both scientific and applied importance, and is particularly relevant for domesticated species. This study presents the first evidence of horses' abilities to spontaneously discriminate between positive (happy) and negative (angry) human facial expressions in photographs. Our results showed that the angry faces induced responses indicative of a functional understanding of the stimuli: horses displayed a left-gaze bias (a lateralization generally associated with stimuli perceived as negative) and a quicker increase in heart rate (HR) towards these photographs. Such lateralized responses towards human emotion have previously only been documented in dogs, and effects of facial expressions on HR have not been shown in any heterospecific studies. Alongside the insights that these findings provide into interspecific communication, they raise interesting questions about the generality and adaptiveness of emotional expression and perception across species. | ||||
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Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 6010 | ||
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Author | McComb, K.; Moss, C.; Sayialel, S.; Baker, L. | ||||
Title | Unusually extensive networks of vocal recognition in African elephants | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2000 | Publication | Anim Behav | Abbreviated Journal | |
Volume | 59 | Issue | Pages | ||
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Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ McComb2000 | Serial | 6281 | ||
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Author | Proops, L.; Grounds, K.; Smith, A.V.; McComb, K. | ||||
Title | Animals Remember Previous Facial Expressions that Specific Humans Have Exhibited | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2018 | Publication | Current Biology | Abbreviated Journal | |
Volume | 28 | Issue | 9 | Pages | 1428-1432.e4 |
Keywords | affective processing; face processing; ; animal-human interaction; interspecific communication; animal memory | ||||
Abstract | Summary For humans, facial expressions are important social signals, and how we perceive specific individuals may be influenced by subtle emotional cues that they have given us in past encounters. A wide range of animal species are also capable of discriminating the emotions of others through facial expressions [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], and it is clear that remembering emotional experiences with specific individuals could have clear benefits for social bonding and aggression avoidance when these individuals are encountered again. Although there is evidence that non-human animals are capable of remembering the identity of individuals who have directly harmed them [6, 7], it is not known whether animals can form lasting memories of specific individuals simply by observing subtle emotional expressions that they exhibit on their faces. Here we conducted controlled experiments in which domestic horses were presented with a photograph of an angry or happy human face and several hours later saw the person who had given the expression in a neutral state. Short-term exposure to the facial expression was enough to generate clear differences in subsequent responses to that individual (but not to a different mismatched person), consistent with the past angry expression having been perceived negatively and the happy expression positively. Both humans were blind to the photograph that the horses had seen. Our results provide clear evidence that some non-human animals can effectively eavesdrop on the emotional state cues that humans reveal on a moment-to-moment basis, using their memory of these to guide future interactions with particular individuals. | ||||
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ISSN | 0960-9822 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 6394 | ||
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Author | Proops, L.; McComb, K.; Reby, D. | ||||
Title | Cross-modal individual vocal recognition in the domestic horse | Type | Conference Article | ||
Year | 2008 | Publication | IESM 2008 | Abbreviated Journal | |
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Keywords | social cognition, animal-human interaction, horses, attention | ||||
Abstract | Horses fulfill many of the criteria for a species in which it would be adaptive to be capable of individual recognition: they are highly social, form strong and long lasting bonds, their affiliations are rarely kin based, they have a fission-fusion social structure and they possess inter and intra-group dominance hierarchies. We used a novel cross-modal, expectancy violation paradigm to provide the first systematic evidence that a non-human animal – the domestic horse- is capable of cross modal recognition. We believe this paradigm could provide an ideal way to study individual recognition across a wide range of species. For full published details see: Proops L, McComb K, Reby D (2009) Cross-modal individual recognition in domestic horses (Equus caballus). Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106: 947-951. |
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Address | Centre for Mammal Vocal Communication Research, Psychology department, | ||||
Corporate Author | Proops, L | Thesis | |||
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Notes | Talk 15 min IESM 2008 | Approved | yes | ||
Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 4469 | ||
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