Two-flash thresholds as a function of flash luminance and area.

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• Creators:
  Lewis, Mark F.
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Office of Aviation Medicine
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Air Pilots Dark Adaptation Human Subject Testing Luminance Luminescence Luminous Intensity Night Vision Optical Devices Pulse Duration Modulation Signal Lights Stimulus Intensity Strobes Stroboscopes Time Duration Vision Vision--Testing Vision Tests

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• Publication/ Report Number:
  AM 68-20 ; DOT/FAA/AM-68/20
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  Civil Aerospace Medical Institute
• Abstract:
  The recent use of strobe lights in aviation suggests the possibility of using temporal patterns of short duration flashes as information-carrying signals. Under night flight conditions, two-flash thresholds were obtained using a two-interval, temporal forced-choice technique with foveally fixated circular targets varying in luminance and area. For all subjects the results replicated a previous finding that two-flash thresholds are a negatively accelerated function of flash luminance, but the function was shown to be dependent on area, a greater threshold change occurring at smaller areas. Two-flash thresholds were also found to be a decreasing function of stimulus area, with the greatest threshold change occurring at low luminances.
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  FAA Civil Aerospace Medical Institute US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:b9c59a27dfbca7459ac3e85b80a85851a8f297dfa8be6587363d294e4d6b98ed
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  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/20865/dot_20865_DS1.pdf
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