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 …

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 …

Neuroimaging studies have repeatedly reported findings of activation in frontoparietal
regions that largely overlap across various cognitive functions. Part of this frontoparietal …

The problem of consciousness continues to be a subject of great debate in cognitive
science. Synthesizing decades of research, The Conscious Brain advances a new theory of …

Recent experiments have shown that visual cognition blends current input with that from the
recent past to guide ongoing decision making. This serial dependence appears to exploit …

The distinction between access consciousness and phenomenal consciousness is a subject
of intensive debate. According to one view, visual experience overflows the capacity of the …

Abstract [Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 41 (6) of Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition (see record 2015-34197-001) …

Fragile visual short-term memory (FM) is a recently discovered form of visual short-term
memory. Evidence suggests that it provides rich and high-capacity storage, like iconic …

People often rely on information that is no longer in view, but maintained in visual short-term
memory (VSTM). Traditionally, VSTM is thought to operate on either a short time-scale with …

The capacity to attend to multiple objects in the visual field is limited. However,
introspectively, people feel that they see the whole visual world at once. Some scholars …