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Understanding Visual Perception by Taylor Elliott is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This document is a chapter from a book about visual perception. It summarizes an experiment by Hecht, Schlaer, and Pirenn on the minimum amount of light needed to see, called the threshold. The experiment measured how factors like the size, duration, wavelength and location of the light stimulus in the visual field affected the light threshold. It found the threshold depends on these factors and changes with dark adaptation of the eye. The results helped establish the quantal theory of vision and influenced
- Author
- Taylor Elliott
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- EN