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Flicker

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The sensation of ‘flicker’ is evoked when intermittent light stimuli are presented to the eye; as the frequency of presentation is increased a point is reached—the critical fusion frequency—at which the flicker sensation disappears to be replaced by the sensation of continuous stimulation. The study of flicker has turned out to be a valuable method of approach to the fundamental problems of visual phenomena—it is amenable to fairly accurate measurement and it represents a perceptual process intermediate in complexity between intensity discrimination and form perception.

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  1. St. Thomas’s Hospital, Southampton University Medical Schools, London, UK

    Hugh Davson DSc (Lond) (Visiting Professor of Physiology, Honorary Research Fellow, Fellow)

  2. King’s College, London, UK

    Hugh Davson DSc (Lond) (Visiting Professor of Physiology, Honorary Research Fellow, Fellow)

  3. University College, London, UK

    Hugh Davson DSc (Lond) (Visiting Professor of Physiology, Honorary Research Fellow, Fellow)

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Davson, H. (1990). Flicker. In: Physiology of the Eye. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09997-9_13

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