peripheral field

Relúmĭno helps people with low vision in several ways: it can magnify or minimize images, adjust brightness and sharpness, highlight objects with an outline, invert colors when reading text, add a color filter to the screen, enhance a user’s peripheral field if they have tunnel vision, and even assist people with scotoma by helping them see what is blocked by their blind spot in the surrounding area.

Lower speeds also give a driver more time to react, as well as a wider peripheral field of vision, to avoid hitting people or vehicles that suddenly enter the street.

Untrained readers use up to ½ of their peripheral field on margins by moving from 1st word to last, spending 25-50% of their time “reading” margins with no content.

He concluded that the embryonic nervous system is highly receptive to influences exerted by the peripheral field.

Hamburger grafted limb buds onto chick embryos at very early stages of development and observed how the modified peripheral field was innervated by sensory and sympathetic fibers.