7 Factors that Influence Visual Sensitivity:
Background Illumination or Light Adaptation - Weber's Law (direct proportionality)
Dark Adaptation - lower sensitivity
Eccentricity -
Pupil Diameter.
Spatial Summation - L x A = k (threshold reached when luminance and area threshold exceeds constant value - Ricco's Law)
Temporal Summation - L x T = k (threshold reached when luminance of stimulus and time equals or exceeds constant value - Bloch's Law)
*Faster for cones = 20msec
*Slower for rods = 100msec
Optical and Neural = disease, cataracts, aberrations, refractive errors, age