What limits the spatial resolution of artificial vision in epiretinal implant patients?

Participants were less likely to see two distinct percepts when electrodes were physically close or lay close to the same axon bundle. Electrodes with high stimulation thresholds were also less likely to produce distinct percepts. Thus electrode pairs can merge into a single percept when (1) current fields overlap, (2) their current fields stimulate the same axonal bundle, or (3) the elongated percepts overlap.