Two experiments were done to find the effect on simultaneous brightness contrast of placing test patches in, as against outside, the fovea. When the display was magnified so that the test patches were outside the fovea no statistically significant effect was found. Very short exposures, to eliminate eye movements, did not appear to reduce contrast.
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