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Science 13 June 1969:
Vol. 164. no. 3885, pp. 1307 - 1309
DOI: 10.1126/science.164.3885.1307
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Dark Adaptation: An Interocular Light-Adaptation Effect

Theron G. Lansford 1 and Howard D. Baker 2

1 Tri-State College, Angola, Indiana 46703
2 Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee 32306

Presentation of iight to the left eye simultaneously with adaptation of the right eye to light may accelerate dark adaptation in the right eye. The result is that the rod-cone-break and the final threshold of the rods are achieved earlier than when the right eye alone is adapted to light.


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