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Energy, quanta, and vision.
Hecht, S., Shlaer, S., & Pirenne, M. H. (1942)
Journal of General Physiology, 25, 819-840.

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This paper showed that the human eye could detect single photons and that the flow of visual information begins at this very basic level. in addition the paper shows that sensation was limited by the reliability in transmitted physical information.

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