Keeping it real : Looking beyond capacity limits in visual cognition
Funding Information: ?K was supported by grants from the Icelandic Research Fund (IRF). ?K and DD were supported by a grant from the Research Fund of the University of Iceland. DD is based at the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging which is supported by core funding from the Wellcome Trust...
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ftopinvisindi:oai:opinvisindi.is:20.500.11815/3142 2023-11-12T04:19:17+01:00 Keeping it real : Looking beyond capacity limits in visual cognition Kristjánsson, Árni Draschkow, Dejan Faculty of Psychology 2021-03-31 16 628528 1375-1390 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/3142 https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-021-02256-7 en eng Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics; 83(4) http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85103859009&partnerID=8YFLogxK Kristjánsson , Á & Draschkow , D 2021 , ' Keeping it real : Looking beyond capacity limits in visual cognition ' , Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics , vol. 83 , no. 4 , pp. 1375-1390 . https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-021-02256-7 1943-3921 35997231 bf085fae-0cce-480a-b53f-9690a6108cc2 85103859009 33791942 unpaywall: 10.3758/s13414-021-02256-7 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/3142 doi:10.3758/s13414-021-02256-7 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Sýndarveruleiki Hugsun Minni Sjónskynjun Virtual reality Visual attention Visual long-term memory Visual working memory Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Language and Linguistics Sensory Systems Linguistics and Language /dk/atira/pure/researchoutput/researchoutputtypes/contributiontojournal/article 2021 ftopinvisindi https://doi.org/20.500.11815/314210.3758/s13414-021-02256-7 2023-11-01T23:55:20Z Funding Information: ?K was supported by grants from the Icelandic Research Fund (IRF). ?K and DD were supported by a grant from the Research Fund of the University of Iceland. DD is based at the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging which is supported by core funding from the Wellcome Trust (203139/Z/16/Z). We would like to thank ?rni Gunnar ?sgeirsson, Gianluca Campana, Mike Dodd, and Michael Hout for very helpful comments on the manuscript. Funding Information: ÁK was supported by grants from the Icelandic Research Fund (IRF). ÁK and DD were supported by a grant from the Research Fund of the University of Iceland. DD is based at the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging which is supported by core funding from the Wellcome Trust (203139/Z/16/Z). We would like to thank Árni Gunnar Ásgeirsson, Gianluca Campana, Mike Dodd, and Michael Hout for very helpful comments on the manuscript. Publisher Copyright: © 2021, The Author(s). Research within visual cognition has made tremendous strides in uncovering the basic operating characteristics of the visual system by reducing the complexity of natural vision to artificial but well-controlled experimental tasks and stimuli. This reductionist approach has for example been used to assess the basic limitations of visual attention, visual working memory (VWM) capacity, and the fidelity of visual long-term memory (VLTM). The assessment of these limits is usually made in a pure sense, irrespective of goals, actions, and priors. While it is important to map out the bottlenecks our visual system faces, we focus here on selected examples of how such limitations can be overcome. Recent findings suggest that during more natural tasks, capacity may be higher than reductionist research suggests and that separable systems subserve different actions, such as reaching and looking, which might provide important insights about how pure attentional or memory limitations could be circumvented. We also review evidence suggesting that the closer we get to naturalistic behavior, ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Opin vísindi (Iceland) Gunnar ENVELOPE(-108.885,-108.885,59.384,59.384) Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 83 4 1375 1390 |
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Funding Information: ?K was supported by grants from the Icelandic Research Fund (IRF). ?K and DD were supported by a grant from the Research Fund of the University of Iceland. DD is based at the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging which is supported by core funding from the Wellcome Trust (203139/Z/16/Z). We would like to thank ?rni Gunnar ?sgeirsson, Gianluca Campana, Mike Dodd, and Michael Hout for very helpful comments on the manuscript. Funding Information: ÁK was supported by grants from the Icelandic Research Fund (IRF). ÁK and DD were supported by a grant from the Research Fund of the University of Iceland. DD is based at the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging which is supported by core funding from the Wellcome Trust (203139/Z/16/Z). We would like to thank Árni Gunnar Ásgeirsson, Gianluca Campana, Mike Dodd, and Michael Hout for very helpful comments on the manuscript. Publisher Copyright: © 2021, The Author(s). Research within visual cognition has made tremendous strides in uncovering the basic operating characteristics of the visual system by reducing the complexity of natural vision to artificial but well-controlled experimental tasks and stimuli. This reductionist approach has for example been used to assess the basic limitations of visual attention, visual working memory (VWM) capacity, and the fidelity of visual long-term memory (VLTM). The assessment of these limits is usually made in a pure sense, irrespective of goals, actions, and priors. While it is important to map out the bottlenecks our visual system faces, we focus here on selected examples of how such limitations can be overcome. Recent findings suggest that during more natural tasks, capacity may be higher than reductionist research suggests and that separable systems subserve different actions, such as reaching and looking, which might provide important insights about how pure attentional or memory limitations could be circumvented. We also review evidence suggesting that the closer we get to naturalistic behavior, ... |
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