Picturing Peripheral Acuity
- 1 July 1998
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perception
- Vol. 27 (7), 817-825
- https://doi.org/10.1068/p270817
Abstract
The grain of the retina becomes progressively coarser from the fovea to the periphery. This is caused by the decreasing number of retinal receptive fields and decreasing amount of cortex devoted to each degree of visual field (= cortical magnification factor) as one goes into the periphery. We simulate this with a picture that is progressively blurred towards its edges; when strictly fixated at its centre it looks equally sharp all over.Keywords
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