Ricco’s law
physiology
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retinal function and light perception
- In human eye: Spatial summation
…minutes of arc—the relationship called Ricco’s law holds: threshold intensity multiplied by the area equals a constant. This means that over this area, which embraces several hundred rods, light falling on the individual rods summates, or accumulates, its effects completely, so that 100 quanta falling on a single rod are…
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