Min Yu Chang

Inflation versus filling-in: why we feel we see more than we actually do in peripheral vision.

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences September 19, 2018 Brian Odegaard, Min Yu Chang, Hakwan Lau et al.

Do we perceive fine details in the visual periphery? Here, we propose that phenomenology in the visual periphery can be characterized by an inflated sense of perceptual capacity, as observers overestimate the quality of their perceptual inputs. Distinct from the well-known perceptual phenomenon of 'filling-in' where perceptual content is generated or completed endogenously, inflation can be...