Flexible behavior requires guidance not only by sensations that are available immediately
but also by relevant mental contents carried forward through working memory. Therefore …

Working memory (WM) has limited capacity. This leaves attention with the important role of
allowing into storage only the most relevant information. It is increasingly evident that …

Philosopher Ned Block argues in this book that there is a" joint in nature" between
perception and cognition and that by exploring the nature of that joint, one can solve …

Understanding the brain requires us to answer both what the brain does, and how it does it.
Using a series of examples, I make the case that behavior is often more useful than …

Visual working memory capacity is of great interest because it is strongly correlated with
overall cognitive ability, can be understood at the level of neural circuits, and is easily …

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 …

In this paper we move beyond memorability and investigate how visualizations are
recognized and recalled. For this study we labeled a dataset of 393 visualizations and …

One of the most important issues concerning the foundations of conscious perception
centers on the question of whether perceptual consciousness is rich or sparse. The overflow …

Visual working memory is the cognitive system that holds visual information active to make it
resistant to interference from new perceptual input. Information about simple stimuli—colors …

The term “modal model” reflects the importance of Atkinson and Shiffrin's paper in capturing
the major developments in the cognitive psychology of memory that were achieved over the …