FIGURE 5.3 Sensory adaptation: Now you see it, now you don’t (a) A projector mounted on a contact lens makes the projected image move with the eye. (b) At first, the person sees the whole image. Then, as the eye grows accustomed to the unchanging stimulus, the image begins to break into fragments that fade and reappear. (From “Stabilized images on the retina,” by R. M. Pritchard. Copyright © 1961 Scientific American, Inc. All Rights Reserved.)
(From “Stabilized images on the retina,” by R. M. Pritchard. Copyright © 1961 Scientific American, Inc. All Rights Reserved.)