Abstract
Many theories of visual perception propose that brightness information spreads from edges to define the perceived intensity of the interior of visual surfaces. Several theories of visual perception have hypothesized that this filling-in process is similar to a diffusion of information where the signals coding brightness spread to nearest neighbors. This paper shows that diffusive mechanisms fail to account for the characteristics of certain afterimage percepts that seem to be dependent on the filling-in process. A psychophysical experiment tests a key property of diffusion-based filling-in mechanisms and finds data that rejects this class of models. A non-diffusive based filling-in mechanism is proposed and is shown to act much like the diffusive based mechanism in many instances, but also produces afterimage percepts that match the experimental data.
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