Papers resulting from a conference entitled Conference on the Clever Hans phenomenon: Communication with Horses, Whales, Apes, and People held by the New York Academy of Sciences, May 6-7, 1980.

More than 100 years ago, a horse from Germany, Clever Hans (der Kluge Hans), astounded the world with his math skills. His owner and trainer, mathematics teacher Wilhelm Von Osten, believed that ...

In the 19th century, Wilhelm von Osten owned a horse named Hans. Von Osten trained Hans in mathematics and other tasks. Von Osten called him “Clever Hans.” Hans gave his answers to math problems and ...

DR. BOHN'S book is, as he himself states in his Preface, the sequel and complement of an earlier work, “La Naissance de l'lntelligence,” already reviewed in the pages of this journal. Its aim is to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In front of spectators and scientists, the horse appears to give correct answers. For a long time, it remains unclear how these ...

More than 100 years ago, a horse from Germany, Clever Hans (der Kluge Hans), astounded the world with his math skills. His owner and trainer, mathematics teacher Wilhelm Von Osten, believed that ...

The fact that Clever Hans the horse could read cues from humans is seen as a problem to be avoided in research (5 May, p 15). Clever Hans's owner, Wilhelm von Osten, clearly believed he had taught ...

Papers resulting from a conference entitled Conference on the Clever Hans phenomenon: Communication with Horses, Whales, Apes, and People held by the New York Academy of Sciences, May 6-7, 1980.