Duration of visual persistence for sine-wave gratings of 1, 2, 4, 8, 12, and 16 cycles deg−1 was determined for seven-year-old, ten-year-old, and thirteen-year-old children. It was found that there was a decrease in persistence duration with age but the slope of this function for the different age groups did not change.
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