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Science 24 April 1964:
Vol. 144. no. 3617, pp. 427 - 429
DOI: 10.1126/science.144.3617.427
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Color Discrimination in the Cat

Jeri A. Sechzer 1 and John Lott Brown 1

1 Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Red-green color discrimination by cats was demonstrated in a situation which effectively eliminated cues based on relative brightness. The persistence of the cat's response to cues based on brightness differences may help to account for the failure of previous experiments to show that cats can make behavioral color discriminations.


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