Prospects and Limitations of Spatial Resolution

Our sense of vision permanently captures, transmits and interprets enormous amounts of visual information. The amount of visual information that can be transmitted to the brain by the means of visual prosthesis will be severely limited and thus also limit the rehabilitation prospects of such devices. While several parameters contribute to the information content of visual stimuli, this chapter concentrates essentially on spatial resolution.

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