Illusory contours don't pass through the 'blind spot'
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Illusory Contours Do Not Pass through the "Blind Spot"
Our visual percepts are not fully determined by the physical stimulus input. That is why we perceive crisp bounding contours even in the absence of luminance-defined borders in visual illusions such as the Kanizsa figure. It is important to understand which neural processes are involved in creating these artificial visual experiences because this might tell us how we perceive coherent objects i...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Vision
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1534-7362
DOI: 10.1167/6.6.98