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In the following chapter on visual perception, I will briefly outline the most important perceptual laws and units that are key to understand visual acuity measurement procedures and reading charts.
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Schmidtmann, G. (2020). Visual Perception. In: Clinical Vision Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35340-7_7
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