 Attending California State University in San Francisco in the MA program (in collaboration with the SF Army Presidio) on Biology (Behavior and Physiology), Sean continued graduate Ph.D. work, studying Animal Physiology and Cognition (attention in humans) at UC Davis.Advanced to candidacy and completed research on covert attention in humans.Around this time, Senechal met and fell in love with a yearling horse and developed a deep interest in understanding the horse, directly through the communications of the horse, itself.