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IN their recent letter on this subject Gregory and Cane1 state that “perhaps other threshold and summation phenomena may be described in terms of statistical information available in neural information channels”. A survey of available data on there relationship between the Weber–Fechner fraction ΔI/I and stimulus area A certainly supports this contention2.
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Gregory, R. L., and Cane, Violet, Nature, 176, 1272 (1955).
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HUNT, R. A Statistical Information Theory of Visual Thresholds. Nature 178, 936 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/178936a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/178936a0
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