A Visual Phenomenon

Is Repetition Blindness a Visual Phenomenon? A critical review

This report reviews the literature on whether people have difficulty seeing repeated items in rapid serial visual presentation displays (RSVP): the effect known as " repetition blindness " (RB). It is argued that the data originally cited in support of this hypothesis are weak, and that follow-up work puts the view in doubt. More recent work by advocates of the hypothesis is also discussed. In ...

Visual snow--persistent positive visual phenomenon distinct from migraine aura.

Patients with visual snow complain of uncountable flickering tiny dots in the entire visual field similar to the view of a badly tuned analogue TV channel (TV snow). The symptoms are often continuous and can persist over years. This condition is grouped among the persistent visual phenomena in migraine, although it clinically presents a unique entity distinct from persistent migraine aura or mi...

The blanking phenomenon: a novel form of visual disappearance

We describe a novel illusion produced by the scintillating grid. Under specific conditions, a light disk presented at an intersection of black squares is undetectable. We term this disappearance "blanking;" conditions yielding the blanking phenomenon were examined. Results indicate the light disk must be presented peripherally, surrounded by at least four black squares for effective blanking to...

The "thin man" phenomenon: imperfect filling in of visual space.

The Title of a Literary Text as a Discursive Phenomenon

Modern text linguistics pays serious attention to the significant structural elements of the text, which carry special knowledge. Such structural elements include the title. In this article, the title is considered as a linguistic and cognitive characteristic and a spatially fixed structural element of the text – «frame», which is located around/before/behind the text, focusing on the importanc...