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 …

The ability to sustain internal representations of the sensory environment beyond immediate
perception is a fundamental requirement of cognitive processing. In recent years, debates …

This book argues that there is a joint in nature between seeing and thinking, perception, and
cognition. Perception is constitutively iconic, nonconceptual, and nonpropositional, whereas …

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 …

This book is about mental imagery and the important work it does in our mental life. It plays a
crucial role in the vast majority of our perceptual episodes. It also helps us understand many …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …