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Do animals experience visual illusions? Nieder and Wagner show that owls perceive, and their neurons respond to, illusory contours that are not physically present.
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Ohzawa, I. Do animals see what we see?. Nat Neurosci 2, 586–588 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/10135
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