Journal article

Publication year: 1999

Pages: 475-476

Journal: Nature

Volume number: 398

ISSN: 0028-0836

eISSN: 1476-4687

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1038/19004

Publisher: Nature Research

Abstract: 

Our visual world is greatly reduced at night. Spatial and temporal resolution are poor, contrast sensitivity is diminished, and colour vision is totally absent¹, as rod photoreceptors are used rather than the cone photoreceptors that operate during the day. Many aspects of rod vision, including spectral, contrast and flicker sensitivity, have been studied in detail¹, but motion perception has been largely ignored². We find that motion perception using rods is impaired, with moving objects appearing to be slower than they are during cone vision.

Harvard Citation style: Gegenfurtner, K., Mayser, H. and Sharpe, L. (1999) Seeing movement in the dark, Nature, 398, pp. 475-476. https://doi.org/10.1038/19004

APA Citation style: Gegenfurtner, K., Mayser, H., & Sharpe, L. (1999). Seeing movement in the dark. Nature. 398, 475-476. https://doi.org/10.1038/19004