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Photopsia

Known as: flicker, light flash, light flashing 
Perceived flashes of light. [HPO:probinson, PMID:10506812]
National Institutes of Health

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Flasher - visual manifestation

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Retinal DiseasesVisual disturbance

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Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Flicker (1/f) noise in percolation networks: A new hierarchy of exponents.
New results for the magnitude of flicker noise, considered as resistance fluctuations, in random resistor networks are reported… 
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Inhibitory influence of unstimulated rods in the human retina: evidence provided by examining cone flicker.
In the parafoveal retina of human observers, cone-mediated sensitivity to flicker decreases as rods become progressively more… 
Highly Cited
1977
Highly Cited
1977
Two-band model of heterochromatic flicker.
We have attempted to reconcile the results of several recent chromatic flicker studies. By adjusting the relative amplitudes of… 
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
Delayed visual perception and delayed visual evoked potentials in the spinal form of multiple sclerosis and in retrobulbar neuritis.
(1) We have used both subjective and evoked potential tests to study cases of multiple sclerosis with no history of retrobulbar… 
Highly Cited
1972
Highly Cited
1972
Flicker and pattern detection: a comparison of thresholds.
  • U. T. Keesey
  • Journal of the Optical Society of America
  • 1972
  • Corpus ID: 9975628
Threshold amounts of light variation needed to see flicker and to see a flickering line, as functions of frequency of variation… 
Highly Cited
1971
Highly Cited
1971
Theory of flicker and transient responses. II. Counterphase gratings.
  • D. H. Kelly
  • Journal of the Optical Society of America
  • 1971
  • Corpus ID: 43001585
The model derived in the preceding paper is applied to new sine-wave flicker data, obtained with 7° circular, uniform-field and… 
Highly Cited
1971
Highly Cited
1971
The relationship between response characteristics to flicker stimulation and receptive field organization in the cat's optic nerve fibers.
Highly Cited
1969
Highly Cited
1969
The superior colliculus and higher visual functions in the monkey.
Highly Cited
1968
Highly Cited
1968
Model for visual luminance discrimination and flicker detection.
A model for vision is proposed. Its basic units are RC stages whose time constants—in three instances—are parametrically… 
Highly Cited
1945
Highly Cited
1945
The electric response of the human eye
The present work arose from an investigation of the electrical changes in the human brain, particularly those produced by the… 
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