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Two overarching properties of human contrast sensitivity. Contrast sensitivity declines with retinal eccentricity and with decreasing scale. Black lines show the exponential relation of contrast sensitivity to eccentricity (left) and spatial frequency (right). An increase in either parameter corresponds to decreased sensitivity. Dashed red lines show a more accurate model with a low-frequency plateau—only the lowest spatial frequencies are meaningfully different.
