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A Newly Discovered Illusion Could Help Explain Our Visual Consciousness
Source: sciencealert.com
Date: 18 December, 2020
How much are you conscious of right now? Are you conscious of just the words in the centre of your visual field or all the words surrounding it?
We tend to assume that our visual consciousness gives us a rich and detailed picture of the entire scene in front of us. The truth is very different, as our discovery of a visual illusion, published in Psychological Science, shows.
To illustrate how limited the information in our visual field is, get a deck of playing cards. Pick a spot on the wall in front of you and stare at it. Then take a card at random. Without looking at its front, hold it far out to your left with a straight arm, until it's on the very edge of your visual field. Keep staring at the point on the wall and flip the card round so it's facing you.
Try to guess its colour. You will probably find it extremely difficult. Now slowly move the card closer to the centre of your vision, while keeping your arm straight. Pay close attention to the point at which you can identify its colour.
It's amazing how central the card needs to be before you're able to do this, let alone identify its suit or value. What this little experiment shows is how undetailed (and often inaccurate) our conscious vision is, especially outside the centre of our visual field.
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