Blind spots: trickery and the'opaque stickiness' of seeing

Title: Blind spots: trickery and the'opaque stickiness' of seeing
Creator: Simbao, Ruth K
Date Issued: 2015
Date: 2015
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/147303
Identifier: vital:38624
Identifier: https://0-hdl.handle.net.wam.seals.ac.za/10520/EJC176319
Description: In a flash the spot will disappear, and in its place - and this is the interesting thing - there is nothing. According to experimental psychology, the eye does not fill in the blind spot, but tricks us into thinking that it has been filled. The blind spot is pure absence of vision, and cannot be experienced at all. The blind spot is an invisible absence : an absence whose invisibility is itself invisible (Elkins 1996 : 170).
Format: 17 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Image and Text
Relation: Simbao, R., 2015. Blind spots: trickery and the'opaque stickiness' of seeing. Image and Text: a Journal for Design, 25(1), pp.175-191.
Relation: Image and Text volume 25 number 1 175 191 January 2015 1020-1491
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