The scenario on the left would be assigned a higher likelihood than the one on the right because it is consistent with a more tightly-packed, regular hexagonal cone lattice. The foveal cone lattice arrangement that produced the maximum likelihood. The cones are plotted in their 2-dimensional positions within the area contained in the three tissue sections. Observed and predicted neonatal CSFs. The various shifted functions were obtained with different retinal eccentricities and different modeling assumptions as described in the text.
Triangles represent shifts based on adult foveal CSFs and the model of the neonatal fovea.