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The meaning of the Weber-Fechner law and description of scenes: III. Description of the visual space

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The Weber-Fechner fraction was measured in experiments where a subject was presented with a pair of lines, the length of one (reference) line being constant and the length of the other (test) one varying. The subject had to say whether the longer line was above or below the shorter one. The subject was trained to distinguish the positions of lines in areas limited in the number of reference lines located at different degrees of eccentricity. The fraction curve for each area proved to be of the same shape as the curve obtained for the entire range and reflecting the Weber-Fechner law. The fraction was originally maximum and only slightly decreased afterwards. On the basis of these data, a neural construction is suggested that serves for describing the visual space and explains the shape of the curve reflecting the Weber-Fechner law.

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  1. Pavlov Institute of Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia

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Original Russian Text © V.D. Glezer, 2009, published in Fiziologiya Cheloveka, 2009, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 20–25.

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Glezer, V.D. The meaning of the Weber-Fechner law and description of scenes: III. Description of the visual space. Hum Physiol 35, 16–20 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0362119709010034

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