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What Is the True Capacity of Visual Cognition?

How much can we perceive and remember at a time? Results from various paradigms traditionally show that observers are aware of surprisingly little of the world around them. However, a recent study by Wu and Wolfe (Curr. Biol. 2018;28:3430–3434) uses a novel technique to reveal that observers have more knowledge of the visual world than […]

Published on December 19, 2018