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perception
You remember more of a scene than you actually saw.
When you look at an image, your brain 'fills in' the area surrounding the borders.
This is a predictive mechanism where the brain assumes the world continues past the frame. You literally encode more visual context than was present in your field of view.
Your brain is constantly inventing parts of your reality.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Intraub & Richardson, 1989
- What the check found
- The core phenomenon is well-supported by Intraub & Richardson (1989), though it is a memory bias rather than an immediate perceptual reconstruction of the environment.
- Confidence
- Well replicated
Related
One of these every day, and every one names the study it came from. When a finding is contested, it says so.