Blind Spot: Seeing more than your eye does

Blind Spot: Seeing more than your eye does. People generally assume that what you see is very much what your eye sees and reports. In reality, your brain fills in very substantially to the information it gets from your eye (Pessoa, Thompson & Noe, 2001). This means a good deal of what you see is made up by your brain. Well, how do we explain this filling in phenomenon? Understanding the concept Blind Spot will be …

…vision of peripheral objects, which seem to converge. The vertical line also appears to shorten as a result of filling in and the two vertical lines seem to converge. The measurements of blind spot are presented in Table 1. Figure 1 represents the map of the subject's blind spot. Figure 1: Graphic representation of blind spot Discussion This study establishes the presence of blind spot and also show that there is a psychological effect on filling in process.