CAT COLOR-VISION - EFFECT OF STIMULUS SIZE, SHAPE AND VIEWING DISTANCE

被引:18
作者
LOOP, MS
BRUCE, LL
PETUCHOWSKI, S
机构
[1] Department of Physiological Optics, The Medical Center/School of Optometry, University of Alabama in Birmingham, Birmingham
基金
美国国家卫生研究院;
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10.1016/0042-6989(79)90135-4
中图分类号
Q189 [神经科学];
学科分类号
071006 ;
摘要
Four cats were trained on an intensity and color discrimination. Manipulations of stimulus size and viewing distance exerted a strong influence on the cats' color discrimination but had no effect on their discrimination of intensity. Variation of stimulus shape and orientation had no effect upon the cats' color discrimination beyond the influence of overall stimulus size. The finding that stimuli must subtend a large visual angle for the cat to perform well on a color discrimination accounts for much of the past discrepancy in behavioral studies. © 1979.
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