Picturing peripheral acuity

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作者
Anstis, S [1 ]
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[1] Univ Calif San Diego, Dept Psychol, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
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10.1068/p270817
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R77 [眼科学];
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100212 ;
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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.
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