Editorial: Blind spots: Trickery and the ‘opaque stickiness’ of seeing

Abstract

In a flash the spot will disappear, and in its place – and this is the interesting thing – there is nothing … According to experimental psychology, the eye does not fill in the blind spot, but tricks us into thinking that it has been filled … the blind spot is pure absence of vision, and cannot be experienced at all … The blind spot … is an invisible absence: an absence whose invisibility is itself invisible (Elkins 1996:170).