Figure 25c.  Peripheral Fill-in and adaptation.

Click on the Image to begin a JAVA applet that will allow you to test out your own artificial scotomas!

Figure 25c.  Once the demonstration is started, fixate the blue dot - when the gray box (the artificial scotoma) is presented, remain fixated and it should fill in with the background over a few seconds.  The better you fixate, the better the effect.

Note that upon return to a gray screen, a fuzzy, whitish afterimage appears where the gray box used to be.

Controlling the Demo:  You can position the gray box (of the JAVA demo) to anywhere in the screen by clicking on it and dragging it to a new location.
You can change different parameters of the simulation by entering new values in the control screen and pressing enter.

This demonstration was written by: Sergei Krutelevich