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Ash the cat selects the Kanizsa square stimulus in other words, the illusion of a square in a new study in which pet owners provided the data.
If you ve spent any time around cats, you ve probably noticed that they love to curl up in small, cozy boxes. What you may not know is that they ll also go sit inside the two-dimensional outline of a square box on the floor. What s more, a new study has found that pet cats will also spontaneously sit inside an optical illusion that merely looks like a square.
Believed to be the first of its kind, the study enlisted volunteers to observe cats in their homes, a strategy to avoid what has historically been the main impediment to studying feline cognition in the lab cats notoriously uncooperative nature.
Tara McCready
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Ash the cat selects the Kanizsa square stimulus in other words, the illusion of a square in a new study in which pet owners provided the data. Tara McCready
If you ve spent any time around cats, you ve probably noticed that they love to curl up in small, cozy boxes. What you may not know is that they ll also go sit inside the two-dimensional outline of a square box on the floor. What s more, a new study has found that pet cats will also spontaneously sit inside an optical illusion that merely looks like a square.