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Science 9 October 1959:
Vol. 130. no. 3380, pp. 919 - 921
DOI: 10.1126/science.130.3380.919
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Fusion of Complex Flicker

JOHN LEVINSON 1

1 Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey

Brown and Forsyth have recently performed a flicker-fusion experiment showing clearly that there is more to flicker than meets the eye. This report presents an analysis of their results which indicates the likelihood that at fusion threshold all but one of the Fourier components of their presentation are imperceptible.


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Flicker Fusion Phenomena: Rapid flicker is attenuated many times over by repeated temporal summation before it is "seen.".
J. Z. Levinson (1968)
Science 160, 21-28
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Harmonic Analysis of Visual Stimuli below Fusion Frequency.
J. L. Brown (1962)
Science 137, 686-688
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Fourier Treatment of Some Experiments in Visual Flicker.
L. Matin (1962)
Science 136, 983-985
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Optics and Visual Physiology.
D. SNYDACKER (1960)
Arch Ophthalmol 63, 1029-1065
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Fusion of Complex Flicker II.
J. Levinson (1960)
Science 131, 1438-1440
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