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Article in Animals : an open access journal from MDPI, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Circles of deception: the Ebbinghaus illusion from fish to birds.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Continuous or discrete magnitudes? A comparative study between cats, dogs and humans.PloS one · 2025Article
- Investigating acoustic numerosity illusions in professional musicians.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2024Article
- Monkeys overestimate connected arrays in a relative quantity task: A reverse connectedness illusion.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2024Article
- Visual continuum in non-human animals: serial dependence revealed in dogs.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
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- Consistently Inconsistent Perceptual Illusions in Nonhuman Primates: The Importance of Individual Differences.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Review
- Underestimation in temporal numerosity judgments computationally explained by population coding model.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) are susceptible to the Kanizsa's triangle illusion.Animal cognition · 2022Article
- Dogs (canis familiaris) underestimate the quantity of connected items: first demonstration of susceptibility to the connectedness illusion in non-human animals.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
Recent studies have showed that domestic dogs are only scantly susceptible to visual illusions, suggesting that the perceptual mechanisms might be different in humans and dogs. However, to date, none of these studies have utilized illusions that are linked to quantity discrimination. In the current study, we tested whether dogs are susceptible to a linear version of the Solitaire illusion, a robust numerosity illusion experienced by most humans. In the first experiment, we tested dogs' ability to discriminate items in a 0.67 and 0.75 numerical ratio. The results showed that dogs' quantity discrimination abilities fall in between these two ratios. In Experiment 2, we presented the dogs with the Solitaire illusion pattern using a spontaneous procedure. No evidence supporting any numerosity misperception was found. This conclusion was replicated in Experiment 3, where we manipulated dogs' initial experience with the stimuli and their contrast with the background. The lack of dogs' susceptibility to the Solitaire illusion suggests that numerical estimation of dogs is not influenced by the spatial arrangement of the items to be enumerated. In view of the existing evidence, the effect may be extended to dogs' quantitative abilities at large.
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