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sensitivities, as well as spatial <strong>and</strong> temporal resoluti<strong>on</strong>s.<br />

Figure 3.29: Lateral inhibiti<strong>on</strong>. Adapted from [Rat72].<br />

An important c<strong>on</strong>sequence of lateral inhibiti<strong>on</strong> is that humans are very adept<br />

at edge detecti<strong>on</strong>. Figure 3.29 describes a situati<strong>on</strong> where a stimulus is bright<br />

<strong>on</strong> the left side <strong>and</strong> darker <strong>on</strong> the right. The red line shows what the retinal<br />

resp<strong>on</strong>se would be in lateral inhibiti<strong>on</strong> did not exist; the light porti<strong>on</strong> is brighter<br />

<strong>and</strong> has a high reflectivity, while the darker porti<strong>on</strong> reflects less light. However,<br />

while the actual luminance across each regi<strong>on</strong> is uniform, the observed lightness of<br />

each regi<strong>on</strong> is not. Near the boundary of the stimuli, the lighter regi<strong>on</strong> seems to<br />

get brighter as it nears the darker regi<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong> the darker regi<strong>on</strong> seems to get darker<br />

as it nears the lighter regi<strong>on</strong>.<br />

To underst<strong>and</strong> the phenomena, we will elaborate <strong>on</strong> different situati<strong>on</strong>s. The<br />

black points <strong>on</strong> the graph (<strong>and</strong> the best fit line) illustrate the observed brightness<br />

curve, obtained by psychophysical measurements. Starting from the left, there<br />

is c<strong>on</strong>stant bright illuminati<strong>on</strong>. Here, we have a situati<strong>on</strong> similar to the first<br />

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