Perceptual filling-in from the edge of the blind spot

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 25, 2006, Pages 4252-4257

  Spillmann, Lothar ^a   Otte, Tobias ^a   Hamburger, Kai ^a   Magnussen, Svein ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Blind spot; Filling in; Human vision; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BLIND SPOT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

COLOR PERCEPTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; OPTIC DISK; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33749987789     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.08.033     Document Type: Article

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