RE: stereovision question

[P3D Jim Crowell <crowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 8:05 PM 4/10/96, P3D William Davis wrote:

>>From the recent thread:
>
>>>   Given that the signals from the retina may take a 1 or 2
>>>   hundred milliseconds to reach the brain--& how long it takes
>>>   depends on the strength of the signal--how can anyone ever
>>> catch a baseball?
>Wait a second (ouch!), is this really a given?  Does it really take
>100 to 200 milliseconds for an image to be registered with the brain?
>That seems like an awfully long time to me.  Doesn't that work out
>to one or two tenths of a second?  Or should I have been paying
>more attention in math class?

I've seen the figure 100 milliseconds (1/10 sec) a number of
times.  Of course, you'd want to know how it was measured....

-Jim C.



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