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My image of the retina

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2009

Maarten A. Bouman
Maarten A. Bouman
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Department of Physological and Medical Physics, Physics Laboratories, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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The initial act for visual perception is the absorption of light in the photo-pigment of the receptor end-organs. Since both light and the nervous message have a quantal structure, any theory of visual information processing should in principle be a digital processing theory. And not only in principle, since we know for certain that in many situations the number of quanta is rather restricted, so that an over-all thermodynamic theory cannot but fail to adequately describe visual facts.

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Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , May 1969 , pp. 25 - 64
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1969

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