We’re Not So Blind to Detail After All

When you are about to cross a street, and you’re looking to make sure no cars are coming, your experience feels, in a word, rich. You are seeing, all in the same moment, the sky, the road, the cars, the traffic lights, pedestrians—all of it. 

So it can come as a shock to hear perceptual psychologists saying that, , we are only seeing a high level of detail in a part of our visual field—about the size of your thumbnailthis big, rich world, is an illusion.