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1. The contour-like phosphenes that may be seen with electrical stimulation of the human eye are described.

2. It is found that a moving edge is particularly effective in generating these patterns.

3. The relation between the velocity of the edge, the frequency of the current and the resultant spatial frequency of the lines is as if one line were generated at the edge for every cycle of the current.

4. The frequency-dependence of the phase-shift between phosphene and current is such as would be expected if the light was delayed by some 30 msec relative to the current at the site of interaction.

5. Evidence is brought forward suggesting that this phenomenon is the result not of interference-like processes, but of coupling interactions of the retinal neurones, dividing the population into domains responding in opposite phase to the electrical stimulation.