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perception
You remember seeing more than was actually there.
The human mind consistently extends the boundaries of scenes you view in images.
When asked to recreate an image from memory, people draw a wider field of view than the original contained. Your brain fills in what it assumes should be just outside the frame.
Your visual memory is a reconstruction, not a recording.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Intraub & Richardson (1989)
- What the check found
- Boundary extension is a well-established finding in cognitive psychology, originally demonstrated by Intraub and Richardson in 1989.
- Confidence
- Solid, with limits
Related
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