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  2. Bloch's law - Wikipedia

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    Bloch's law states that detection occurs if the total luminance energy exceeds some threshold value . Formally, = Here, is a constant that can vary with different viewing conditions, observer attributes, and adaptation levels. Early measurements used single, isolated light flashes of varying duration and intensity to determine the boundary at ...

  3. Contrast effect - Wikipedia

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    A contrast effect is the enhancement or diminishment, relative to normal, of perception, cognition or related performance as a result of successive (immediately previous) or simultaneous exposure to a stimulus of lesser or greater value in the same dimension. (Here, normal perception, cognition or performance is that which would be obtained in ...

  4. Laws of association - Wikipedia

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    Impressions are stored in the seat of perception, linked by the laws of similarity, contrast, and contiguity. In psychology, the principal laws of association are contiguity, repetition, attention, pleasure-pain, and similarity. The basic laws were formulated by Aristotle in approximately 300 B.C. and by John Locke in the seventeenth century ...

  5. Weber–Fechner law - Wikipedia

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    The Weber contrast is defined as = /, and Weber's law says that should be constant for all . Human vision follows Weber's law closely at normal daylight levels (i.e. in the photopic range ) but begins to break down at twilight levels (the mesopic range) and is completely inapplicable at low light levels ( scotopic vision ).

  6. Michel Eugène Chevreul - Wikipedia

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    De la loi du contraste simultané des couleurs et de l'assortiment des objets colorés. - translated into English by Charles Martel as The principles of harmony and contrast of colours (1854) Chevreul, Michel Eugène (1855). The Principles of Harmony and Contrast of Colours, and Their Applications to the Arts (2 ed.). London: Longman, Brown ...

  7. Association of ideas - Wikipedia

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    These special laws logically follow from the general laws above: A - Primary - Modes of the Laws of Repetition and Redintegration: (1) Law of Similars (Analogy, Affinity); (2) Law of Contrast; and (3) Law of Coadjacency (Cause and Effect, etc.). B - Secondary - Modes of the Law of Preference, under the Law of Possibility:

  8. Why Jude Law wanted his FBI agent in 'The Order' to be ... - AOL

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    Husk is a composite of the many law enforcement officials who took part in the investigation, a fictional character with whom the filmmakers could paint a portrait that would dramatically contrast ...

  9. Law of noncontradiction - Wikipedia

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    So Plato's law of non-contradiction is the empirically derived necessary starting point for all else he has to say. [13] In contrast, Aristotle reverses Plato's order of derivation. Rather than starting with experience, Aristotle begins a priori with the law of non-contradiction as the fundamental axiom of an analytic philosophical system. [14]