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Color Vision: The Hungry Monkey

Trichromatic monkeys can find conspicuously colored food much better than dichromats. Will you be an effective forager under dichromatic conditions? Play the game and find out!

To read an abstract of the original experiment see: Caine and Mundy 2000.

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Support for this work was provided by the National Science Foundation’s Division of Undergraduate Education program under Award Nos. DUE-2020221, DRL-1620746, DRL-1620910, and TUES-1043876. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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