Past work, for example, has shown that cats will engage in hunting behavior when they see illusory motion such as the rotating snakes illusion. A picture of a woman’s wardrobe is going viral on social media that challenges people to find an adorable kitty hiding in plain sight. "This study aligns with previous research which indicates that, like humans, cats are susceptible to a variety of visual illusions," adds Vitale. "It is also a great way for an owner to learn more about their cat's behavior."īut she notes the number of people who dropped out of this study and says future efforts along these lines may need to be even shorter and easier to ensure that volunteers are able to complete all the required tasks. the viewers line of sight, causing it to appear to fade away gradually. In 2020, lead researcher Gabriella Smith, now an animal behavior researcher at the Alex Foundation, was a graduate student at Hunter College at the City University of New York (CUNY). "Citizen science could prove to be a useful way to reach a broad range of cat participants from all over the world," says Vitale. The Cheshire Cat Illusion is a type of optical illusion that involves a partial. A new study suggests cats might also perceive illusionssuch as the Kanizsa contour illusion as perfect places to sit. Cat researcher Kristyn Vitale of Unity College in Maine agrees. Smith says that as far as she knows, this is the first published study of cat cognition that has enlisted nonscientists to do the experiments at home. Their results? That the cats chose to sit in the illusory square as often as they did the actual outline of a square - and more than the non-square arrangement. While hundreds of people signed up for the experiment, in the end the researchers got complete data on only 30 cats. And that makes them hard to study in some ways, because we are often so reliant on training paradigms and cats aren't very motivated to be trained," says Gabriella Smith, an animal behavior researcher who currently works with the Alex Foundation, an avian cognition lab, and is the lead researcher on the study. "Cats are funny, cats are weird and quirky, and we love them for it. Los Angeles-based artist Katy Ann Gilmore combines art and mathematics to transform ordinary, flat surfaces into incredible three-dimensional illusions. 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.īelieved 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. What you may not know is that they'll also go sit inside the two-dimensional outline of a square box on the floor. If youre seeing her rotate clockwise on her left left leg, youre not alone. If you've spent any time around cats, you've probably noticed that they love to curl up in small, cozy boxes. This mesmerizing optical illusion was first made in 2003 by web designer Nobuyuki Kayahara. 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.
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