MULTIPLICATION NOISE IN THE HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM AT THRESHOLD - 1. QUANTUM FLUCTUATIONS AND MINIMUM DETECTABLE ENERGY.

Malvin Carl Teich; Paul R. Prucnal; Giovanni Vannucci; Michael E. Breton; William J. McGill

doi:10.1364/JOSA.72.000419

MULTIPLICATION NOISE IN THE HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM AT THRESHOLD - 1. QUANTUM FLUCTUATIONS AND MINIMUM DETECTABLE ENERGY.

Malvin Carl Teich, Paul R. Prucnal, Giovanni Vannucci, Michael E. Breton, William J. McGill

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A series of frequency-of-seeing experiments has been carried out, using an Ar** plus laser operated at 514. 5 nm as the source of light. In certain blocks of trial, the subjects were encouraged to report as seen those trials in which the stimulus might have been present. It was determined that sensitivity and reliability were traded against each other over a broad range: for the four subjects, the detection of 147 photons at the cornea with 60% frequency of seeing entailed, on the average, a 1% false-positive rate (FPR), whereas the detection of 34 photons at the cornea with 60% frequency of seeing was accompanied by a 33% FPR. A new neural-counting model has been developed in the framework of signal-detection theory.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	419-431
Number of pages	13
Journal	Journal of the Optical Society of America
Volume	72
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSA.72.000419
State	Published - 1982

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