- afterimages
- n. visual image which remains after the actual stimulus has ceased
English contemporary dictionary. 2014.
afterimages
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Hess afterimage — The eponym Hess afterimage refers to the German ophthalmologist Carl von Hess (1863 1923). It is used to denote a positive afterimage that appears third in a temporal sequence of afterimages resulting from a brief light stimulus. Hess… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
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