I don’t mean the blind spot you get behind you when you’re out on the road driving — where you can’t see a passing car in your rear-view mirror. Instead, I’m talking about something that’s an aspect of human physiology: the “anatomical blind spot” — a place inside your eye where the optic nerve runs through the clusters of sensory cells that detect light. Because the optic nerve sits right on the space where the light detection cells are, there’s a spot right in the middle of your field of vision where your eye can’t detect anything at all.
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New Vision for IT Blind Spots
Posted by: Ed Moyle June 15, 2010 05:00 AMI don’t mean the blind spot you get behind you when you’re out on the road driving — where you can’t see a passing car in your rear-view mirror. Instead, I’m talking about something that’s an aspect of human physiology: the “anatomical blind spot” — a place inside your eye where the optic nerve runs through the clusters of sensory cells that detect light. Because the optic nerve sits right on the space where the light detection cells are, there’s a spot right in the middle of your field of vision where your eye can’t detect anything at all.