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Visual Perception: Introduction

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Physiology of the Eye

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In Section 2 we have investigated the ‘mechanism of vision’ in the limited sense of attempting to understand the elementary processes in the retina that result in discharges in the optic nerve, and of attempting to correlate these with the sensations. To this end, very simple visual phenomena were chosen—the sensation of luminosity, the discrimination of flicker, colour and form. In respect to this last category, we confined ourselves to the very element of form discrimination—the resolution of points and lines—and in visual acuity studies we indicated that the recognition of letters was an unsuitable basis for the study of resolution since it involved activities at a higher level than those we were immediately concerned with. In this section we must consider some of the manifestations of this higher form of cerebral activity.

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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). Visual Perception: Introduction. In: Physiology of the Eye. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09997-9_17

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