Rich conscious perception outside focal attention

Can we consciously see more items at once than can be held in visual working memory? This question has eluded resolution because the ultimate evidence is subjects’ reports in which phenomenal consciousness is filtered through working memory. However, a new technique makes use of the fact that unatte...

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Published inTrends in cognitive sciences Vol. 18; no. 9; pp. 445 - 447
Main Author Block, Ned
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam Elsevier Ltd 01.09.2014
Elsevier
Subjects
Activity levels. Psychomotricity
Attention - physiology
Biological and medical sciences
Consciousness - physiology
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Humans
Memory, Short-Term
Neurology
Perception
Photic Stimulation
Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Psychophysics
Vigilance. Attention. Sleep
Vision
Visual Perception - physiology
Human
Consciousness
Memory
Vision
Perception
Cognition
Working memory
Visual attention
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Summary:Can we consciously see more items at once than can be held in visual working memory? This question has eluded resolution because the ultimate evidence is subjects’ reports in which phenomenal consciousness is filtered through working memory. However, a new technique makes use of the fact that unattended ‘ensemble properties’ can be detected ‘for free’ without decreasing working memory capacity.
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ISSN:1364-6613
1879-307X
1879-307X
DOI:10.1016/j.tics.2014.05.007