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WHEN an intermittent photic stimulus alternates at an increasing rate it is found, in general, that the visual apparatus resolves the alternations below, but fails to do so above, a critical rate. This rate is called the fusion or critical flicker frequency.
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ANGEL, A., HEMS, D., ROUSE, W. et al. Fusion Frequency and Light Quantity. Nature 184, 1873–1874 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1841873a0
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