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Contrast thresholds reveal different visual masking functions in humans and praying mantises
Ghaith Tarawneh, Vivek Nityananda, Ronny Rosner, Steven Errington, William Herbert, Sandra Arranz-Paraíso, Natalie Busby, Jimmy Tampin, Jenny Read, Ignacio Serrano-Pedraza
Biology Open 2018 7: bio029439 doi: 10.1242/bio.029439 Published 26 April 2018
Ghaith Tarawneh
1Institute of Neuroscience, Henry Wellcome Building for Neuroecology, Newcastle University, Framlington Place, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
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Vivek Nityananda
1Institute of Neuroscience, Henry Wellcome Building for Neuroecology, Newcastle University, Framlington Place, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
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Ronny Rosner
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Sandra Arranz-Paraíso
2Faculty of Psychology, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid 28223, Spain
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Natalie Busby
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vol. 7 no. 4, bio029439

DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1242/bio.029439
PubMed 
29700198

Published By 
The Company of Biologists Ltd
Online ISSN 
2046-6390
History 
  • Received September 11, 2017
  • Accepted March 12, 2018
  • Published online April 26, 2018.
Copyright & Usage 
© 2018. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.


Author Information

  1. Ghaith Tarawneh1,‡,
  2. Vivek Nityananda1,
  3. Ronny Rosner1,
  4. Steven Errington1,
  5. William Herbert1,
  6. Sandra Arranz-Paraíso2,
  7. Natalie Busby*,1,
  8. Jimmy Tampin1,
  9. Jenny Read1 and
  10. Ignacio Serrano-Pedraza2
  1. 1Institute of Neuroscience, Henry Wellcome Building for Neuroecology, Newcastle University, Framlington Place, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
  2. 2Faculty of Psychology, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid 28223, Spain
  1. ↵‡Author for correspondence (ghaith.tarawneh{at}ncl.ac.uk)
  • ↵* Present Address: Neuroscience and Aphasia Research Unit (NARU), School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, UK.

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Contrast thresholds reveal different visual masking functions in humans and praying mantises
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Biology Open 2018 7: bio029439 doi: 10.1242/bio.029439 Published 26 April 2018

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