Abstract
1. The variation of threshold with field area was measured in fields homogeneous in rod-cone composition. At 15° above the fovea, an increase in field diameter from 1° to 5° reduces the threshold sevenfold, at 25° above the fovea tenfold. 2. These changes are shown to follow qualitatively from simple statistical properties of the retinal mosaic. Analytic treatment leads to the expression, (A – nt)k I = C, in which A = area, nt = constant threshold number of elements, I = threshold intensity, and k and C are constants. This equation describes the available data accurately, and is the general form of previous empirical area-threshold formulae.
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