Abstract
In continuation of previous studies of the mathematical biophysics of visual perception in relation to the aesthetic evaluation of visual patterns, an expression for the total intensity of excitation in a discriminating center as a function of the intensity of the peripheral stimulus is derived. This expression is applied to the case of aesthetic judgments of similar polygons of different sizes. The theoretical conclusions are tested experimentally by use of standard psychological scaling methods. The theoretical predictions are found to be in agreement with the experimental results.
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Rashevsky, N., Brown, V. A contribution to the mathematical biophycics of visual perception and aesthetics. Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics 6, 119–124 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02478242
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