The Dancing Mouse: A Study in Animal BehaviorYerkes, Robert Mearns
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The Dancing Mouse: A Study in Animal Behavior
Yerkes, Robert Mearns
Animal behavior; Dancing mice
To sum up and state clearly the method of defining the brightness of the
light in the following experiments: the candle-meter value of each light
by which an electric-box was illuminated, as determined by the use of a
Lummer-Brodhun photometer and measurements of the distance of the source
of light from the filter, is given in connection with each of the
experiments. This brightness value less the diminution caused by the
passage of the light through a filter, which has been defined as to
composition and thickness of the layer of solution, gives that degree of
brightness by which the electric-box was illuminated.
Tests of the dancer's ability to discriminate green and blue[1] in the
transmitted light apparatus were made with four animals. An incandescent
lamp marked 16-candle-power was set in each of the light-boxes. These
lamps were then so placed that the green and the blue seemed to be of
equal brightness to three persons who were asked to compare them
carefully. Their candle-meter values in the positions selected were
respectively 18 and 64, as appears from the statement of conditions at the
top of Table 22.
[Footnote 1: Hereafter the light transmitted by the blue-violet filter
will be referred to for convenience as blue.]
TABLE 22
GREEN-BLUE TESTS
Brightnesses Equal for Human Eye
Green 18 candle meters Blue 64 candle meters
SERIES DATE NO. 10 NO. 11
1906 RIGHT WRONG RIGHT WRONG
(GREEN) (BLUE) (GREEN) (BLUE)
A and B[1] April 2 10 10 12 8
1 3 6 4 5 5
2 4 5 5 6 4
3 5 5 5 5 5
4 6 5 5 5 5
5 7 7 3 5 5
6 8 7 3 3 7
7 9 7 3 5 5
8 10 3 7 7 3
9 11 5 5 4 6
10 12 5 5 6 4
[Footnote: A single preference series of twenty tests.]
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