I don’t really understand how people dropping out of the study changes the results. Since only 30 people finished all the trials, I’m not sure if that’s enough to make the results trustworthy.

This section shows how the authors conducted the study. They used a citizen science method in which cat owners printed and set up visual stimuli at home, then observed and recorded the behavior of their cats. This shows how the researchers collected data in a practical way during the pandemic while also answering their main question about cats’ perception of illusory shapes.

This is one of the most important sections in the article because it gives a summary of what the article is about. This is really useful since it saves researchers time when deciding whether they want to use an article or not for their own paper. The abstract gives a briefly overview on how the authors tested cats’ responses to illusory shapes using a citizen science approach, which gives us an insight on what the research question is and what are the methods in just a few sentences.

I am excited to learn about what are some reading strategies I can use, because sometimes it can be really difficult for me to focus when reading about topics that are not that interesting for me or to get the main points of some readings.