Studies in perception

Historical Significance: Bouman was a widely admired vision scientist from the Netherlands. She was one of the principal researchers in the debate on the threshold sensitivity of the eye and whether one quantum was sufficient to generate a visual response, that is the eye could operate at ultimate sensitivity. (A good summary of the debate can be found in Davson H The eye Vol 2A 1976) .See also Threshold Vision and Light Quanta: A Thread through the History of Visual Science by Maarten A Bouman; Antoon M W Scholtes Journal of Modern Optics, 24, no. 2 (1977): 131-138. Bouman was a widely admired vision scientist from the Netherlands. Her festschrift was published as 'Limits in Perception: essay in honor of Maarten Anne Bouman' in 1984. See also Cat No 501.