Working memory is widely considered to be limited in capacity, holding a fixed, small
number of items, such as Miller's' magical number'seven or Cowan's four. It has recently …

Human visual perception carves a scene at its physical joints, decomposing the world into
objects, which are selectively attended, tracked and predicted as we engage our …

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 …

Mental representations remain the central posits of psychology after many decades of
scrutiny. However, there is no consensus about the representational format (s) of biological …

Categorization with basic color terms is an intuitive and universal aspect of color perception.
Yet research on visual working memory capacity has largely assumed that only continuous …

The brain has finite processing resources so that, as tasks become harder, performance
degrades. Where do the limits on these resources come from? We focus on a variety of …

Humans can recollect past events in details (recollection) and/or know that an object,
person, or place has been encountered before (familiarity). During the last two decades …

Working memory, the ability to keep recently accessed information available for immediate
manipulation, has been proposed to rely on two mechanisms that appear difficult to …

Binding refers to the operation that groups different features together into objects. We
propose a neural architecture for feature binding in visual working memory that employs …

Working memory is a mental storage system that keeps task-relevant information accessible
for a brief span of time, and it is strikingly limited. Its limits differ substantially across people …