Horses are sensitive to baby talk: pet-directed speech facilitates communication with humans in a pointing task and during grooming

Animal Cognition - Pet-directed speech (PDS) is a type of speech humans spontaneously use with their companion animals. It is very similar to speech commonly used when talking to babies. A survey...     

Horses form cross-modal representations of adults and children

Animal Cognition - Recently, research on domestic mammals’ sociocognitive skills toward humans has been prolific, allowing us to better understand the human–animal relationship. For...     

Horses discriminate between human facial and vocal expressions of sadness and joy

Animal Cognition - Communication of emotions plays a key role in intraspecific social interactions and likely in interspecific interactions. Several studies have shown that animals perceive human...     

Horses feel emotions when they watch positive and negative horse–human interactions in a video and transpose what they saw to real life

Animal Cognition - Animals can indirectly gather meaningful information about other individuals by eavesdropping on their third-party interactions. In particular, eavesdropping can be used to...