Dark and Light Adaptation: Psychophysics

Sensory Communication

1961 • 2,849 citations

The Vertebrate Eye and Its Adaptive Radiation

1943 • 1,655 citations

Organization of the retina of the mudpuppy, Necturus maculosus. II. Intracellular recording.

1969 • 1,378 citations

The Sensitivity Performance of the Human Eye on an Absolute Scale*

1948 • 895 citations

The vertebrate eye and its adaptive radiation [by] Gordon Lynn Walls.

1942 • 864 citations

Optical quality of the human eye

1966 • 810 citations

Change of organization in the receptive fields of the cat's retina during dark adaptation

1957 • 787 citations

Temporal and spatial summation in human vision at different background intensities

1958 • 681 citations

The luminous efficiency of rays entering the eye pupil at different points

1933 • 680 citations

Saturation of the Rod Mechanism of the Retina at High Levels of Stimulation

1954 • 580 citations

Chemistry of Visual Adaptation in the Rat

1960 • 542 citations

Visual adaptation in relation to brief conditioning stimuli

1947 • 463 citations

Zur Anatomie und Physiologie der Retina

1866 • 458 citations

Increment thresholds at low intensities considered as signal/noise discriminations

1957 • 417 citations

Signal Transmission along Retinal Rods and the Origin of the Electroretinographic a-Wave

1969 • 413 citations

The quantum character of light and its bearing upon threshold of vision, the differential sensitivity and visual acuity of the eye

1943 • 364 citations

COLOR VISION: THE APPROACH THROUGH INCREMENT-THRESHOLD SENSITIVITY

1959 • 360 citations

The Ferrier Lecture, 1962 Visual adaptation

1965 • 358 citations

Neurological Control Systems

1995 • 347 citations

Spatial interaction in human cone vision

1967 • 320 citations

The directional sensitivity of the retina and the spectral sensitivities of the rods and cones

1939 • 320 citations

Light-induced resistance changes in single photoreceptors ofnecturus andgekko

1969 • 300 citations

RODS, CONES, AND THE CHEMICAL BASIS OF VISION

1937 • 275 citations

THE INFLUENCE OF LIGHT ADAPTATION ON SUBSEQUENT DARK ADAPTATION OF THE EYE

1937 • 274 citations

Neural and Photochemical Mechanisms of Visual Adaptation in the Rat

1963 • 261 citations

Spatial interaction in the human retina during scotopic vision.

1965 • 252 citations

Rhodopsin measurement and dark‐adaptation in a subject deficient in cone vision

1961 • 241 citations

Bleaching and regeneration of cone pigments in man

1968 • 239 citations

The Site of Visual Adaptation

1967 • 235 citations

Effect of Size of Pupil on Visual Acuity

1960 • 207 citations

The flicker fusion frequency of the blue‐sensitive mechanism of colour vision

1966 • 173 citations

The difference spectrum and the photosensitivity of rhodopsin in the living human eye

1956 • 155 citations

The summation areas of human colour‐receptive mechanisms at increment threshold

1954 • 155 citations

NEW EVIDENCE SUPPORTING THE LINKAGE TO EXTRACELLULAR SPACE OF OUTER SEGMENT SACCULES OF FROG CONES BUT NOT RODS

1968 • 150 citations

Measurement of the scotopic pigment in the living human eye

1955 • 150 citations

Dark‐adaptation and the regeneration of rhodopsin

1961 • 140 citations

Light and Dark Adaptation in the Isolated Rat Retina

1967 • 134 citations

The Role of Afterimages in Dark Adaptation

1964 • 132 citations

Blue-Blindness in the Normal Fovea*

1967 • 128 citations

Initial Stages of Dark and Light Adaptation*†

1963 • 125 citations

Contrast sensitivity of the human peripheral retina

1969 • 119 citations

Dark adaptation and increment threshold in a rod monochromat.

1965 • 118 citations

Cone pigment kinetics in the protanope

1963 • 114 citations

The Relative Sensitivities of Television Pickup Tubes, Photographic Film, and the Human Eye

1942 • 114 citations

Slippage of Contact Lenses and other Artefacts in Relation to Fading and Regeneration of Supposedly Stable Retinal Images

1963 • 111 citations

Rhodopsin and the electrical activity of the retina in congenital night blindness.

1966 • 108 citations

Dark-adaptation: A new hypothesis

1964 • 106 citations

The effect of adaptation on differential brightness discrimination

1938 • 102 citations

Sinusoidal flicker characteristics of the color-sensitive mechanisms of the eye

1969 • 99 citations

The effect upon the rod threshold of bleaching neighbouring rods

1962 • 98 citations

Dark-adaptation processes in the rhodopsin rods of the frog's retina

1967 • 93 citations

The change of visual sensitivity with time

1937 • 91 citations

Diffusion Model of Linear Flicker Responses*

1969 • 87 citations

The discrimination of after‐images

1959 • 86 citations

THE MECHANISM OF DARK ADAPTATION: A Critical Resume

1940 • 83 citations

The rod after-effect in S-potentials from the cat retina

1969 • 83 citations

A method of determining the overall quantum efficiency of visual discriminations

1962 • 82 citations

THE PHYSICAL LIMITS OF VISUAL DISCRIMINATION

1964 • 80 citations

Bleached rhodopson and visual adaptation.

1965 • 74 citations

The Bleaching and Regeneration of Rhodopsin in the Living Eye of the Albino Rabbit and of Man

1955 • 73 citations

Measurements of the quantum efficiency of discrimination in human scotopic vision

1962 • 70 citations

Cone pigment kinetics in the deuteranope

1965 • 69 citations

THE COURSE OF ROD DARK ADAPTATION AS INFLUENCED BY THE INTENSITY AND DURATION OF PRE-ADAPTATION TO LIGHT

1941 • 69 citations

Increment thresholds in a subject deficient in cone vision

1961 • 68 citations

Specificity of cone mechanisms in lateral interaction

1970 • 67 citations

The effect of field size and pattern on the change of visual sensitivity with time

1940 • 63 citations

The dark-adaptation of single units in the frog's retina and its relation to the regeneration of rhodopsin

1965 • 62 citations

The rod increment threshold during dark adaptation in normal and rod monochromat.

1965 • 62 citations

Visual Acuity

1965 • 60 citations

The quantum efficiency of bleaching of rhodopsin in situ.

1955 • 60 citations

S‐potential and dark adaptation in fish

1968 • 58 citations

Physical Measurement of Cone Pigment in the Living Human Eye

1957 • 58 citations

The separation of cone mechanisms in dark adaptation

1966 • 57 citations

THE NATURE OF DARK ADAPTATION

1941 • 57 citations

Rhodopsin Photoproducts: Effects on Electroretinogram Sensitivity in Isolated Perfused Rat Retina

1968 • 56 citations

Quantum Efficiency of Human Vision

1959 • 56 citations

Rhodopsin Kinetics and Rod Adaptation in Oguchi's Disease

1967 • 55 citations

The attenuation of rod signals by backgrounds

1970 • 52 citations

Rod‐cone independence for sensitizing interaction in the human retina

1970 • 50 citations

Effect of Instantaneous Flashes on Adaptation of the Eye: Effects of Brilliant Flashes on Light and Dark Adaptation

1963 • 49 citations

The Rat Electroretinogram

1964 • 45 citations

Bleached rhodopsin and retinal interaction

1968 • 45 citations

Local adaptation in stabilized vision

1966 • 40 citations

Visual functions in congenital night blindness.

1966 • 40 citations

Rod/cone rivalry in pigment regeneration

1968 • 40 citations

The mechanism of dark-adaptation

1962 • 34 citations

FLASH PHOTOLYSIS IN HUMAN CONES*

1964 • 34 citations

The Cones of the Grass Snake's Eye

1956 • 32 citations

REPORT OF A JOINT DISCUSSION ON VISION

1934 • 29 citations

The purkinje shift

1969 • 27 citations

Dark adaptation and the rate of pigment regeneration

1969 • 23 citations

Effect of a Very Bright Flash on Cone Vision and Cone Pigments in Man

1963 • 20 citations

Photochemical laws and visual phenomena

1946 • 19 citations

Über die Funktion der Netzhautstäbchen

1896 • 17 citations

The dependence of critical flicker frequency and the rod threshold on the state of adaptation of the eye

1968 • 14 citations

Transient and steady state electroretinal responses

1968 • 11 citations

The Nature of the Sensitivity of Animals to Light*

1929 • 8 citations

Effect of Adaptation on the Retinal Nerve Code

1969 • 3 citations