Discrimination of orientations in filled-in percepts compared with veridical ones

• Main Author: Ho, Ping Ghee
• Other Authors: Ajai Vyas
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology::Experimental psychology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/74940
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The optic disk is an area of the retina without photoreceptors, which cannot send signals of visual stimuli to the brain -- this area is the blind spot. When you place two identical Gabor stimuli, one in the blind spot and one in the actual visual field, humans are more likely to choose the stimuli...