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A SIMPLE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION OF VISUAL ACUITY AND THE DENSITY OF RETINAL OUTPUT CHANNELS
Author(s) -
FRISEN L.,
FRISEN M.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
acta ophthalmologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.534
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1755-3768
pISSN - 1755-375X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-3768.1976.tb01275.x
Subject(s) - monochromatic color , retina , visual acuity , retinal , degree (music) , interference (communication) , simple (philosophy) , probability density function , vernier acuity , optometry , ophthalmology , optics , mathematics , medicine , physics , computer science , statistics , telecommunications , channel (broadcasting) , philosophy , epistemology , acoustics
Throughout the retina, the parameters of the probability distribution of visual acuity for monochromatic interference fringes are closely proportional to the number of retinal ganglion cells per degree of visual angle. There are no simple relationships to receptor spatial frequencies. These findings suggest that neuro‐retinal acuity is determined principally by the spatial frequency of neural output channels.