The mystery of cats and their love of imaginary boxes

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The mystery of cats and their love of imaginary boxes
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You can't get inside your cat's brain, but you can try.

In Head Trip, PopSci explores the relationship between our brains, our senses, and the strange things that happen in between. Any cat owner knows how much our feline friends seem to bask in the coziness of a box. In fact, cats appear to derive so much comfort from enclosed spaces that their fondness for boxes extends to spaces that have no actual walls–and spaces whose “edges” are visual illusions.

If so, it would be pretty compelling evidence that cats saw those illusory contours as edges, just like we do. So pleased to announce that my paper, "If I Fits I Sits: A Citizen Science Investigation into Illusory Contour Susceptibility in Domestic Cats has just been published in AABS! #IfIFitsISits #CatSquare #CitizenScience #CommunityScience pic.twitter.com/AXbDttnOGC— Gabriella E. Smith M.A.

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