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 …

▪ Abstract Three central problems in the recent literature on visual attention are reviewed.
The first concerns the control of attention by top-down (or goal-directed) and bottom-up (or …

Miller (1956) summarized evidence that people can remember about seven chunks in short-
term memory (STM) tasks. However, that number was meant more as a rough estimate and …

Information Visualization: Perception for Design, Fourth Edition explores the art and science
of why we see objects the way we do. Based on the science of perception and vision, the …

The idea of one's memory" filling up" is a humorous misconception of how memory in
general is thought to work; it is actually has no capacity limit. However, the idea of a" full …

A theory of attentional dynamics is proposed and aimed at explaining how listeners respond
to systematic change in everyday events while retaining a general sense of their rhythmic …

Research on attention has evolved dramatically in recent years. There are now many new
ways of studying how we are able to select some aspects for processing, whilst ignoring …

The emulation theory of representation is developed and explored as a framework that can
revealingly synthesize a wide variety of representational functions of the brain. The …

One of the more powerful impressions created by vision is that of a coherent, richly detailed
world where everything is present simultaneously. Indeed, this impression is so compelling …

Perceptual representations depend on distributed neural codes for relaying the parts and
properties of objects. Some mechanism is needed to 'bind'the information relating to each …