Horse Brain, Human Brain

The Neuroscience of Horsemanship

By: Janet L. Jones

Narrated by: Helena Harris

In this illuminating book, brain scientist and horsewoman Janet Jones describes human and equine brains working together. Using plain language, she explores the differences and similarities between equine and human ways of negotiating the world. Mental abilities—like seeing, learning, fearing, trusting, and focusing—are discussed from both human and horse perspectives. Throughout, true stories of horses and handlers attempting to understand each other—sometimes successfully, sometimes not—help to illustrate the principles.

Horsemanship of every kind depends on mutual interaction between equine and human brains. When we understand the function of both, we can learn to communicate with horses on their terms instead of ours. By meeting horses halfway, we achieve many goals.

• We improve performance.
• We save valuable training time.
• We develop much deeper bonds with our horses.
• We handle them with insight and kindness instead of force or command.
• We comprehend their misbehavior in ways that allow solutions.
• We reduce the human mistakes we often make while working with them.

Instead of working against the horse's brain, expecting him to function in unnatural and counterproductive ways, this book provides the information needed to ride with the horse's brain. Each principle is applied to real everyday issues in the arena or on the trail, often illustrated with true stories from the author's horse training experience. Horse Brain, Human Brain offers revolutionary ideas that should be considered by anyone who works with horses.

PLEASE NOTE: when you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

©2020 Janet L. Jones (P)2022 Janet L. Jones

Interesting

I loved the book. I just got a new horse and it was refreshing knowledge and new knowledge after owning horses for over 25 years. I don't think anyone completely ever will know everything about horses. All we can do is to keep striving to learn. This book was very interesting to me. I really enjoyed it.

Great ideas!

I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who has or works with horses! There are a couple of glitches (ie, the chapters don’t line up, and there is one or two places where the reading was edited incorrectly) but overall this book is wonderful. I think that the closing chapter is very motivational and inspiring to be better horsemen and women. I have a physical copy of the book but was having trouble finding the time to finish it. Thank you for making it into an audiobook! I’m interested in reading Janet’s other titles as well as I think that she has a way of making potentially difficult concepts understandable.

I will never look at horses the same way

This is a great book! It is scientific, yet easily understandable. As a horse owner, therapeutic horse farm graduate intern, and animal lover, I thoroughly enjoyed the knowledge and training available in this book!

Clever. Logical. Wise and kind…

Probably the best horse sense book I’ve read or listened to.
I first heard Dr Jones on the podcast Horsewise with Lynn Reardon.
I’m so glad I bought this on Audible, it will be re listened to many times!
Thank you so much…. Julia in Greece.

Great horse knowledge

I enjoyed this book and it really helped me understand more about how horses think which will hopefully help my riding!