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Rapid Adaptation of Night Vision

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, January 2018
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Title
Rapid Adaptation of Night Vision
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology, January 2018
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00008
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Adam Reeves, Rebecca Grayhem, Alex D. Hwang

Abstract

Apart from the well-known loss of color vision and of foveal acuity that characterizes human rod-mediated vision, it has also been thought that night vision is very slow (taking up to 40 min) to adapt to changes in light levels. Even cone-mediated, daylight, vision has been thought to take 2 min to recover from light adaptation. Here, we show that most, though not all adaptation is rapid, taking less than 0.6 s. Thus, monochrome (black-white-gray) images can be presented at mesopic light levels and be visible within a few 10th of a second, even if the overall light level, or level of glare (as with passing headlamps while driving), changes abruptly.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 31 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 5 16%
Student > Bachelor 4 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 10%
Researcher 2 6%
Other 3 10%
Unknown 10 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 3 10%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 10%
Engineering 3 10%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 6%
Psychology 2 6%
Other 5 16%
Unknown 13 42%
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#14,372,208
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#15,266
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#240,671
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#355
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