Filled/non-filled pairs: An empirical challenge to the integrated information theory of consciousness.
Consciousness and Cognition 2022 Amber R Hopkins, Kelvin J. McQueen
Perceptual filling-in for vision is the insertion of visual properties (e.g., color, contour, luminance, or motion) into one's visual field, when those properties have no corresponding retinal input. This paper introduces and provides preliminary empirical support for filled/non-filled pairs, pairs of images that appear identical, yet differ by amount of filling-in. It is argued that such image...