[The "filling-in-trap". Our sences deceive us]
Related Experiment Video
Updated: Oct 9, 2026

Low-Cost Automated Flight Intercept Trap for the Temporal Sub-Sampling of Flying Insects Attracted to Artificial Light at Night
Published on: December 29, 2021
Abstract:
We use various strategies in order to attain a complete knowledge of reality. One of these is using "filling-in". What is and is not filling-in is discussed. The brain may process light which reaches the retina in two fundamentally different ways. The conclusion is that many a patient with perimetrically verifiable visual field defects with each eye separately experiences a complete image of his total surrounding. The quality of this image correlates to the neuronal capacity of the retina in question. What generally has been assumed to be due to filling-in is in this specific instance a newly discovered faculty in the system consisting of eye and brain naively, we have walked straight into the trap of blaming this faculty on filling-in.
Related Concept Videos
Understanding Deception
False Memories
One primary source of false memories is misattribution, where individuals incorrectly associate external information with...
Tactile and Chemical Senses
Social Traps
Subliminal Perception
Hindsight Biases
