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Janet Jones

Brain scientist and Horse trainer

Janet Jones applies brain research to training horses and riders. She has a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles, and for 23 years taught the neuroscience of perception, language, memory, and thought. She trained horses at a large stable early in her career, and later ran a successful horse-training business of her own. She has schooled hundreds of green or difficult horses and competed in hunter, jumper, halter, reining, and western pleasure disciplines. Her most recent book, Horse Brain, Human Brain (2020), is currently being translated into seven languages.

Written by Janet Jones