TCTAP C-091 A Complex CTO and the Blind Spot

A blind spot tester.

The reductionist blind spot

How computational thinking resolves a problem in philosophy.

Blind Spot

In monocular viewing there is a region in the peripheral visual field that is blind due to the absence of photoreceptors at the site where the optic nerve exits the eye. This region, like certain other blind spots, nonetheless appears filled in (Walls 1954). Ramachandran (1992a,b) has recently reported several novel demonstrations of filling-in at the blind spot. In this essay we critically ree...

Right brain: The blind spot.

Christina B. Pham, MD “He’s not moving his left arm.” No mother wants to hear that about her newborn in the delivery room. I was a fourth-year medical student; my husband was a surgical resident. We couldn’t contain the windstorm of scary diagnoses that came over us as we heard those words. Did he have a congenital syndrome? A stroke? Over the next few days, the pediatricians reassured us it wa...

Attention and Blind-Spot Phenomenology

The reliability of visual filling-in at the blind spot and how it is influenced by the distribution of spatial attention in and around the blind spot were studied. Our data suggest that visual filling-in at the blind spot is 1) less reliable than it has been assumed, and 2) easier under diffused attention around the blind spot than under focal attention restricted in the blind spot. These findi...