PMID: 9548573Apr 21, 1998Paper

The vanishing of the sun: a manifestation of cortical plasticity

Survey of Ophthalmology
A B Safran, T Landis

Abstract

In Monet's painting impression. Rising Sun, when one steadily fixates the image of a sailor in the center of the picture for several seconds, the solar disk progressively disappears, being replaced in both brightness and color by the surrounding sky. This "filling-in" phenomenon reflects a process of cortical remapping, similar to the one that occurs in the presence of visual field defects. Filling-in is largely ignored by clinicians, despite its major implications in ophthalmologic practice, especially the nonrecognition of visual field deficits.

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Nov 15, 2006·Journal of Computational Neuroscience·A Thielscher, H Neumann
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