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Robert M. Yerkes

9 1
20 9 Same 10 0 10 0
21 10 Same 10 0 10 0
22 11 Same 10 0 10 0
23 June 1 Both varied from
1 to 1800 c.m. 12 8 10 10
24 2 Same 18 2 14 6
25 June 3 Both varied from
2 to 1800 c.m. 19 1 17 3
26 4 Same 17 3 17 3
27 5 Same 18 2 18 2

[Footnote 1:  Brighter.] [Footnote 2:  Darker.]

These long-continued and varied tests with Nos. 151 and 152 revealed three facts:  that the mice depend chiefly upon brightness differences in visual discrimination; that they probably have something which corresponds to our red-green vision, although their color experience may be totally unlike ours; and that the red end of the spectrum seems much darker to them than to us, or, in other words, that the least refrangible rays are of lower stimulating value for them than for us.

TABLE 25

GREEN-RED TESTS

June 1, 1906 No. 151

BRIGHTNESS VALUE IN CANDLE    RIGHT    WRONG
TEST      POSITION              METERS              (GREEN)   (RED)
1    Green on left        Green    4, Red  448      Right     —­
2    Green on right       Green  448, Red    4      Right     —­
3    Green on right       Green    4, Red  448      Right     —­
4    Green on left        Green  448, Red    4      Right     —­
5    Green on left        Green    3, Red 1800        —­    Wrong
6    Green on right       Green 1800, Red    3        —­    Wrong
7    Green on right       Green    3, Red 1800        —­    Wrong
8    Green on left        Green 1800, Red    3      Right     —­
9    Green on right       Green    5, Red   34      Right     —­
10    Green on left        Green   34, Red    5      Right     —­
11    Green on right       Green    6, Red   74      Right     —­
12    Green on left        Green   74, Red    6      Right     —­
13    Green on left        Green    4, Red  448        —­    Wrong
14    Green on right       Green  448, Red    4      Right     —­
15    Green on right       Green    4, Red  448        —­    Wrong
16    Green on left        Green  448, Red    4      Right     —­
17    Green on right       Green    3, Red 1800        —­    Wrong
18    Green on left        Green 1800, Red    3        —­    Wrong
19    Green on right       Green 1800, Red    3        —­    Wrong
20    Green on left        Green    3, Red 1800      Right     —­

         Totals 12 8

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