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Article: Reports from University of Illinois describe recent advances in behavior.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- November 4, 2009
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According to a study from the United States, "Kang I, Reem RE, Kaczmarowski AL, Malpeli JG. Contrast sensitivity of cats and humans in scotopic and mesopic conditions."
"J Neurophysiol 102: 831-840, 2009. First published May 20, 2009; doi:10.1152/jn.90641.2008. Human contrast sensitivity in low scotopic conditions is regulated according to the deVries-Rose law. Previous cat behavioral data, as well as cat and mice electrophysiological data, have not confirmed this relationship. To resolve this discrepancy at the behavioral level, we compared sensitivity in dim light for cats and humans in parallel experiments using the same visual stimuli and similar behavioral ...