The grand illusion - Filling in the gaps
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Why don’t we notice gaps?
- the brain fills in the missing bits
- there is no need to fill anything in, because the gaps are just a lack of information
How do we fill in the gaps?
- the ability to see objects as whole is adaptive (amodal perception / conceptual filling-in)
- most people are unaware of the blind spot, because we have two eyes which cover it
Which ideas of filling in do exist?
- isomorphic filling-in: the brain actually fill in the details as though to complute a picture in the brain
- symbolic filling-in: the process is more conceptual and occurs higher up the visual system.
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What did Ramachandran conclude about filling-in?
What did experiments with monkeys showed in V1?
How does filling-in happens with afterimages?
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