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December 17, 2010
Those highly visual mice!
A commonplace misapprehension about mice is that they have poor vision, and in particular, that as “nocturnal animals” that they have negligible cone vision. A recent quantitative behavioral investigation by Frank Naarendorp of Northeastern University, Ed Pugh of UC Davis and colleagues published in the Journal of Neuroscience has shown the common view to be completely wrong. The article can be found here.