'Accounting for the sensory abilities of animals is critical in experimental design.'No
researcher would disagree with this statement, yet it is often the case that we inadvertently …

Visual illusions provide a powerful tool for probing the mechanisms that underlie perception.
While most previous studies of visual illusions focused on average group-level performance …

Visual illusions have been studied in many non-human species, spanning a wide range of
biological and methodological variables. While early reviews have proved useful in …

It has been argued that humans' susceptibility to visual illusions does not simply reflect
cognitive flaws but rather specific functional adaptations of our perceptual system. The data …

Simple Summary The study of visual illusion susceptibility offers a fascinating lens into the
evolution of perception. Utilizing a community science paradigm, this study investigated pet …

Animals travelling in their natural environment repeatedly encounter obstacles that they can
either detour or go through. Gap negotiation requires an accurate estimation of the …

Optical illusions have long been used in behavioural studies to investigate the perceptual
mechanisms underlying vision in animals. So far, three studies have focused on ungulates …

Humans and many other species show consistent patterns of responding when making
relative quantity (“more or less”) judgments of stimuli. This includes the well-established ratio …

Over the past 20 years, the scientific community has witnessed a growing interest in the
comparative study of mental capabilities. Animal cognition has become an independent field …

Simple Summary Visual illusions fascinate humans, in large part because we realize how
such experiences disconnect how we perceive the world from reality. The discovery that …