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[RC] right brain/ left brain and eyesight - Christy HSomeone commented about Parelli's left brain/ right brain theory. This may help explain it and it includes recent research on equine eyesight. Interesting research.........After the last view posts about the horse's vision and eyes, I ran across this article today. It made sense, so I decided to share. The article was in German but I will try my best to translate it to the best of my abilities:-). Their training method is nothing new, I've heard of it a thousand times, but their explanation is really good - I think. Let me know what you think about it! The Situation: Unlike the human brain, a horse's brain doesn't quite often exchange information between left brain/right brains. This means, a horse has to learn everything from the left side, as well as from the right side separately. When a horse sees something with his right eye, the information is saved in its left brain. When the horse sees something with his left eye - it's consequently saved to the right side of his brain and he doesn't recognize the item, since the date transfer between left/right brains is poor or doesn't function at all. A horse see's things monocular (both eyes look in a completely different direction) or binocular (both eyes are focused on one item). Horses are equipped with a "safety eye" (mostly left eye) and is the one which looks out for predators and is used more often then the "escape or flight eye" (mostly right eye) which keeps the herd and possible escape routes in sight. Consequently, a horses' left eye is more active than its right eye and causes the information to be saved in its RIGHT BRAIN!!!! (I had to capitalize this!), which causes the right half of the brain to become more active as well. The right side of the brain is responsible for intuitive/instinctive/reflex -like reactions => horses react without thinking (fleeing all of a sudden, etc.) while the left brain is responsible for the more controlled/thoughtful behavior and reactions. This is the part of the website I wanted to share with you, the rest of the website explains how to solve it using a method they call Dual Activation Process, where they use blue and yellow poles in L-shapes and U-shapes, etc. They claim that the latest discovery in horse vision was that horses can see blue and yellow as very dominant colors and all other colors appear to them in gray shades only. I've copied the website so you can look so you can see a picture of what it is I'm so badly translating and I'm making their article look VERY bad with poor translation but I did get the basics down so I hope you can forgive me. http://www.tb-trainingstable.de/Dual-Aktivierung.htm _________________________________________________________________ Learn.Laugh.Share. Reallivemoms is right place! http://www.reallivemoms.com?ocid=TXT_TAGHM&loc=us =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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