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Cats and Illusory Motion

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Author

  • Rasmus Bååth
  • Takeharu Seno
  • Akiyoshi Kitaoka

Summary, in English

We present the first evidence that cats experience visual illusions and that a non-human animal can see illusory motion. In three videos we show cats reacting with hunting behavior when watching the Rotating Snakes illusion. This is taken to mean that cats see illusory motion in this image due to the propensity of cats to pursue movement. This is further supported by a survey where 29% of the respondents answered that their cat reacted to the illusion. A number of preferential looking experiments were also indicative of cats experiencing the illusion, but not conclusively so.

Department/s

Publishing year

2014

Language

English

Pages

1131-1134

Publication/Series

Psychology

Volume

5

Issue

9

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP)

Topic

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics
  • Computer Vision and Robotics (Autonomous Systems)

Status

Published

Project

  • Thinking in Time: Cognition, Communication and Learning

Research group

  • Lund University Cognitive Science (LUCS)

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2152-7180