Blind Spot: Seeing More than Your Eye Does

People generally assume that what you see is very much what your eye sees and reports. In reality, your brain fills in very substantially to the information it gets from your eye (Pessoa, Thompson & Noe, 2001). This means a good deal of what you see is made up by your brain. Well, how do we explain this filling in phenomenon? Understanding the concept Blind Spot will be the first step to answering this question.
Blind spot is a small part of your retina where the optic nerve and blood supply for the retina enters the eye. …