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virtual reality created by the brain from our relevant memory templates.
When we look into a mirror and move our eyes left to right, we cannot observe our own eyes movements. This demonstrates the phenomenon of suppressing the rapid eyes movements,i.e.our visual sensitivity is much reduced.Eye movements are closely linked to attention shifts.
Thus what we see does not depend entirely on what is out there but also to a considerable extent on what the brain computes to be most probably out there. So we can ask how extensive is this filling-in process,what is its normal function and how is it done?
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