I have not encountered the term in a detrimental sense, but I have with something similar that ‘improves’ low visibility - an effect known as ‘streaming’. This is most noticeable in fog operations where the runway lights appear as a stream of information; the more distant lights appear to be seen at ranges more distant than the reported visibility would allow.
I understand that this might be a form of ‘Gestalt’ – the mental need for symmetry or completion of an expected pattern. The mental picture predicts the next light to be seen, thus it might be classed as expectation bias.