Cat color vision: The effect of stimulus size

Michael S. Loop; Laura L. Bruce

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Cat color vision: The effect of stimulus size

Michael S. Loop, Laura L. Bruce

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Abstract

Adult cats were trained to discriminate blue from green and gray. Although the cats could discriminate the intensity of stimuli whose areas ranged from 33 to 0.36 square centimeters they could not discriminate color when the stimulus was 0.36 square centimeter (<20° visual angle). This influence of stimulus size may account for both positive and negative results of previous studies.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1221-1222
Number of pages	2
Journal	Science
Volume	199
Issue number	4334
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.628838
State	Published - Jan 1 1978
Externally published	Yes

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Loop, M. S., & Bruce, L. L. (1978). Cat color vision: The effect of stimulus size. Science, 199(4334), 1221-1222. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.628838

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