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Light and dark adaptation • The range of light levels over which we can see • Why do we need adaptation? • The design problem • Role of pupil changes • The duplex retina: four comparisons of rod-based
and cone-based vision • Dark adaptation and pigment bleaching • Light adaptation:
Weber’s Law The response of visual neurons
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Luminance and retinal illumination
The range of luminances (left) and retinal illumination (right) found in the natural world
Sun
Fluorescent light/bulbs
White paper, full sunlight Candle flame
Comfortable reading
Print read with difficulty White surface, moonlight Threshold for cone vision
White surface, moonless night
Visual threshold
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Rod and cone operating ranges
cone vision
day
LUMINANCE RANGE
rod vision
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Light reflected from a surface under low and high illumination
The ratio of light intensities reflected from the white surround and the black letter is 9:1 under both low and high illuminations.
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Consider and comment:
A white page inside a room reflects less light than a black stone on a sunny beach, yet the page looks white and the stone looks black
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The sensations of blackness and lightness depend on the contrast of the stimulus, not on the absolute amount of light reflected off any one part of it.
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Luminance difference between ‘L’ and background = 80 units 8000 units
Background = 90 units 9000 units
Response ∝ Difference/Background 80/90 (89%) 8000/9000
(89%)
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A piece of white paper that is dimly lit (A) looks white because its luminance lies at the top of its local scale, even though this luminance may be less than that of a piece of black paper that is brightly lit (B).
log illuminance
log
lum
inan
ce
The eye’s sliding scale of brightness
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Mechanisms that enable us to see over a wide range of light intensities: • Pupil changes
• Duplex retina: rods & cones
• Dark adaptation & pigment bleaching
• Light adaptation of the visual system and individual neurons (Webers Law)
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Rods & cones: 4 key differences between scotopic and photopic vision • Contrast sensitivity
• Distribution of rods and cones
• Spectral sensitivity of rods and cones
• Sensitivity to light of rods and cones.
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1. Contrast sensitivity functions at three different light levels
Spatial Frequency (cycles/mm on retina)
Spatial frequency (cycles/degree) Se
nsit
ivit
y (1
/thr
esho
ld c
ontr
ast)
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2. Distribution of rods and cones visual eccentricity (deg)
spatial density (cells/square mm)
macula lutea
cones
rods
retinal eccentricity (mm)
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Convergence
receptors130 million
bipolars20 million
ganglion cells1 million
optic nerve fibres
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3. Spectral sensitivity curves for rod and cone vision
Rela
tive
sen
siti
vity
Wavelength (nm)
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Purkinje effect
• A shift in the colour appearance at dusk. • Reds look darker, blues look brighter
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4. Sensitivity to light of rods & cones: Dark Adaptation
Low Lo
g. l
ight
sen
siti
vity
High Time in dark (min)
7 minutes
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Duplex function
• 1. Rods are more sensitive than cones (x50)
• 2. There are more rods than cones (x10)
• 3. Ganglion cells have larger RFs for rods than cones (i.e. more post-receptoral summation)
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Dark adaptation curves Low Lo
g. l
ight
sen
siti
vity
High Time in dark (min)
Cones Rods
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The “design” problem • To detect differences in luminances across
the visual scene • Scale the response to these differences
according to the ambient light level
In solving the problem, we must:
1. Have good sensitivity to luminance differences 2. Be able to operate across a wide range of
ambient light levels 3. Cope with a limited neural response range
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Contrast sensitivity and operating range
Large operating range but poor contrast sensitivity
Relative light intensity Intensity
Brig
htne
ss
Brig
htne
ss
Good contrast sensitivity but small operating range
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Increment threshold curve
WEBER’S LAW
Log background intensity (I)
Log
incr
emen
t th
resh
old
(del
ta I
)
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Weber’s Law
∆ I/I = constant
• Our sensation is determined by the percentage difference in the luminance of a surface relative to its background
• This holds over a wide range of background (ambient) luminances
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I1 I2 I3 Re
spon
se (i
ps)
1 1.5 10 15 100 150 Flash intensity log
Mean light levels
I I
I = 0.5 I = 5 I = 50
A single neuron can shift its operating range according to the mean light level. The light increment (delta I) required to obtain a criterion response is scaled up or down, according to the mean light level. This is known as GAIN CONTROL.
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Ganglion cell adaptation
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Receptoral adaptation