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Sensory Thresholds

Your senses do not switch on all at once. A stimulus must reach a minimum strength before you notice it at all — the absolute threshold — and once you do, it must change by a certain amount before you notice the difference — the difference threshold. Strengthen the light below and find both.

The stimulus

Stimulus intensity0 units
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Chance you detect the stimulus
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Undetected