Araragi Yukyu, Ito Hiroyuki, Sunaga Shoji
Faculty of Design, Kyushu University, 4-9-1, Shiobaru, Minami-ku, Fukuoka-shi 815-8540, Japan.
Perception. 2008;37(8):1301-4. doi: 10.1068/p6040.
We report a phenomenon showing new aspects of perceptual filling-in at the blind spot. When two and three discs were presented below the blind spot, observers perceived them as three and four discs, respectively, but when they were presented in the nasal visual field as a control, the perceived numbers were veridical. The phenomenon demonstrates that the visual system produces an illusory object in the blind spot even when the inducing objects presented on only one side of the blind spot are clearly discrete and countable.
我们报告了一种现象,该现象展现了盲点处知觉填充的新方面。当在盲点下方呈现两个和三个圆盘时,观察者分别将它们感知为三个和四个圆盘,但当在鼻侧视野作为对照呈现时,感知到的数量是真实的。该现象表明,即使仅在盲点一侧呈现的诱导物体清晰可辨且可数,视觉系统仍会在盲点处产生一个虚幻物体。