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SUBMITTER: Cohen MA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4898652 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cohen Michael A MA Dennett Daniel C DC Kanwisher Nancy N
Trends in cognitive sciences 20160501 5
Although our subjective impression is of a richly detailed visual world, numerous empirical results suggest that the amount of visual information observers can perceive and remember at any given moment is limited. How can our subjective impressions be reconciled with these objective observations? Here, we answer this question by arguing that, although we see more than the handful of objects, claimed by prominent models of visual attention and working memory, we still see far less than we think w ...[more]