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Gregory and Cane1 have proposed a statistical information theory of visual thresholds which derives the empirical laws governing absolute and differential visual thresholds from certain plausible assumptions about the properties of the eye as a detector of visible radiation. An essentially similar theory was restated and elaborated by Cane2 in a later paper.
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MARRIOTT, F. A Theory of Visual Thresholds. Nature 181, 1487–1488 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1811487a0
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