Crozier WJ, Wolf E. THEORY AND MEASUREMENT OF VISUAL MECHANISMS : VIII. THE FORM OF THE FLICKER CONTOUR.
ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010;
25:369-79. [PMID:
19873280 PMCID:
PMC2142506 DOI:
10.1085/jgp.25.3.369]
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Abstract
Flicker response curves (man) obtained with images formed entirely within the fovea are like those secured with lower animals having only one general class of retinal receptors. They are normal probability integrals (F vs. log Im), and the properties of their parameters agree with those for visually simplex animals and for the "cone" portions of contours exhibiting visual duplexity. By several different procedures, involving experimental modifications of the "cone" curve, the "rod" part of the typical human duplex curve can be obtained free from overlapping by the extrapolated "cone" curve. It then has the probability integral form which the lower segment does not directly exhibit when combined with "cone" effects. These results are discussed with reference to the statistical nature of the fundamental form of the flicker contour and to the interpretation of duplex curves produced by the neural integration of two independently modifiable groups of sensory effects.
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