Abstract
When a small area is presented in peripheral vision, it becomes invisible and invaded by surrounding texture within a few seconds. This visual illusion is called perceptual filling-in. Investigation on filling-in characteristics contributes to understand human visual information processing mechanism.
In our preliminary study (Yokota, IEEE EMBS, 2005), we found that incomplete fixation distributes filling-in time. Furthermore, that we can see nothing by restraining eye movement artificially is well known. Therefore, we can consider that filling-in time is influenced by eye movement. Although it has been recently reported that eye movement influences the filling- in occurrence (Martinez-Conde, Neuron 2006), the relation between eye movement and the filling-in time has rarely been reported.
For this study, we measured the filling-in time for three subjects, for four surrounding textures, with simultaneous recording of eye movement. The results show that the filling-in time correlates with the standard deviation of the power of the eye distance from the fixation point. Furthermore, we found relatively strong correlation between the filling-in time and the power of high frequency component 50-200 (Hz) in the eye movement, though the correlation of the power of low frequency component 10-50 (Hz) is not so high. Thus we suppose that filling-in is inhibited by small involuntary eye movement.
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Yokota, M., Yokota, Y. (2009). The relation between eye movement and filling-in time. In: Dössel, O., Schlegel, W.C. (eds) World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, September 7 - 12, 2009, Munich, Germany. IFMBE Proceedings, vol 25/11. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03891-4_26
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