What Is the True Capacity of Visual Cognition?

Michael A Cohen

doi:10.1016/j.tics.2018.12.002

What Is the True Capacity of Visual Cognition?

Trends Cogn Sci. 2019 Feb;23(2):83-86. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2018.12.002. Epub 2018 Dec 17.

Author

Michael A Cohen¹

Affiliation

¹ Amherst College, Department of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience, 220 South Pleasant St., Amherst, MA 01002, USA. Electronic address: michaelthecohen@gmail.com.

PMID: 30573400
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2018.12.002

Abstract

How much can we perceive and remember at a time? Results from various paradigms traditionally show that observers are aware of surprisingly little of the world around them. However, a recent study by Wu and Wolfe (Curr. Biol. 2018;28:3430-3434) uses a novel technique to reveal that observers have more knowledge of the visual world than previously believed.

Keywords: attention; awareness; consciousness; perception; visual cognition.

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
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MeSH terms

Attention*
Awareness*
Cognition
Knowledge
Mental Recall