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This is the third in a series of reviews of the status of research on visual detection. The first was presented by BLACKWELL (1) in 1963; the second was presented by BLACKWELL (2) in 1972. These earlier reviews included different areas of research on human visual detection. The present review is restricted to aspects of visual detection which reveal the spatial organization of the human visual system. The basic experiment concerns determining the effect of the spatial size and configuration of a stimulus object or target upon the threshold contrast or luminance increment required for bare detection of its presence. The properties of spatial organization of the human visual system are deduced from the results of such experiments.
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Blackwell, H.R., Chiou, W., Blackwell, B.R. (1978). Current Status of Research on the Spatial Organization of the Human Visual System at Detection Threshold. In: Cool, S.J., Smith, E.L. (eds) Frontiers in Visual Science. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-35397-3_27
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