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Hello Christy,
Amazing article and thanks for the translation. I have always 
wondered why my horse generally spooks harder when encountering scary 
stuff on the left. I thought that maybe his right eye didn't work as 
well...duh. A question, I looked at the link and what is the footing 
in the ring? Wood chips or rocks or....?
Don Huston


At 10:47 AM 8/20/2007 Monday, you wrote:
> Someone 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

Don Huston at cox dot net
SanDiego, Calif 



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