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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average duration of a single eye blink | Human Homo sapiens | 0.1-0.4 | sec | 100706 | http://faculty.washi... |
| Time during which the pupil is occluded and vision thereby interrupted during a normal blink | Human Homo sapiens | 100-150 | msec | 113196 | Volkmann FC. Human visual... |
| In the global population, a person and a child go blind every | Human Homo sapiens | a person goes blind every 5 sec: a child goes blind every minute | N/A | 117172 | Allen D, Vasavada A.... |
| Fraction of the 37 million blind people in 1990 who were blind as a result of cataract | Human Homo sapiens | 40 | % | 117171 | Allen D, Vasavada A.... |
| Visible spectrum seen by the eye | Human Homo sapiens | 370-730 | nanometers | 100917 | http://webvision.med... |
| Average time between blinks | Human Homo sapiens | 2.8 | sec | 100705 | http://faculty.washi... |
| Amount of photons necessary to excite a rod | Human Homo sapiens | 1 | unitless | 100709 | Brain Facts and Figures... |
| Amount of photons necessary to excite a cone | Human Homo sapiens | 100 | unitless | 100710 | Brain Facts and Figures... |
| Weight of skin | Human Homo sapiens | 4.1 | kg | 100711 | http://faculty.washi... |
| Time for eye maturation and development | African clawed frog Xenopus laevis | 60 | hours | 102457 | Curran KL, LaRue S, Bronson B... |
| Distance between eyes | Human Homo sapiens | 6 | cm | 105348 | John Moran eye center... |
| Pupil diameter | Human Homo sapiens | 1-8 | mm | 105349 | John Moran eye center... |
| Angular resolution of the eye | Human Homo sapiens | 18 | arcsec | 114251 | Keller & Friedli, Visibility... |
| Fraction of refractive power in eye that is accountable to cornea focusing light onto the retina | Human Homo sapiens | >2/3 | of refractive power | 117193 | Koudouna E et al., Evolution... |
| Neural processing time | Human Homo sapiens | visual stimuli 50ms: auditory stimuli 10ms | ms | 112387 | The neural bases of ... |
| Range of light intensity that can be seen by humans | Human Homo sapiens | <10^-2 photons/µm^2/sec (starlight) to >10^8 photons/µm^2/sec (bright sunlight) | photons/µm^2/sec | 111341 | F. Rieke and D. A. Baylor... |
| The number of discernible colors perceived by normal trichromats | Human Homo sapiens | ~2,000,000 | Different colors | 107061 | Linhares JM, Pinto PD... |
| Human reaction time in 100m dash facts | Human Homo sapiens | See - link | msec | 111450 | Kevin Duffy, (Sydney... |
| Duration of average splicing event | Various | 30 | sec | 108453 | Hnilicová J, Stanek D.... |
| Minimum energy for vision | Unspecified | Table - link | N/A | 111991 | Hecht S, Shlaer S, Pirenne... |