title: Expected waiting time for the visual response.
abstract: Let the light-quanta be absorbed in the retina according to a Poisson process. The present paper derives bounds for the expected waiting time for an occurrence of a visual response. These bounds can serve as control limits for a proposed coincidence threshold. An upper bound for the probability that a visual response has not occurred in (0,t) is derived and is used to obtain an upper bound for the mean visual threshold.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008027:Light; D008954:Models, Biological; D012160:Retina / Q000502:physiology*; D013997:Time Factors; D014785:Vision, Ocular / Q000502:physiology; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*