Blind spot (vision)

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A blind spot, scotoma, is an obscurity of the visual field. A particular blind spot known as the physiological blind spot, "blind point", or punctum caecum in medical literature, is the place in the visual field that corresponds to the lack of light-detecting photoreceptor cells on the optic disc of the retina where the optic nerve passes through the optic disc.

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Explanation

Because there are no cells to detect light on the optic disc, the corresponding part of the field of vision is invisible. Some process in our brains interpolates the blind spot based on surrounding detail and information from the other eye, so we do not normally perceive the blind spot.

The blind spot is located about 12-15° temporally and 1.5° below the horizontal and is roughly 7.5° high and 5.5° wide.

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In other animals

Although all vertebrates have this blind spot, cephalopod eyes, which are only superficially similar, do not. In them, the optic nerve approaches the receptors from behind, so it does not create a break in the retina.

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Discovery

The first documented observation of the phenomenon was in the 1660s by Edme Mariotte in France. At the time it was generally thought that the point at which the optic nerve entered the eye should actually be the most sensitive portion of the retina; however, Mariotte's discovery disproved this theory.

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Blind spot test

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See also

• Filling-in
• Horizontal eccentricity

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References

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External links

• "Amsler Grid" Test from Ossibus Software
• Blind spots
• Blind spot test
• Blind spot map tool

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