In Sight, Out of Mind: When Object Representations Fail
@article{Simons1996InSO,
title={In Sight, Out of Mind: When Object Representations Fail},
author={Daniel J. Simons},
journal={Psychological Science},
year={1996},
volume={7},
pages={301 - 305}
}Models of human visual memory often presuppose an extraordinary ability to recognize and identify objects, based on evidence for nearly flawless recognition of hundreds or even thousands of pictures after a single presentation (Nickerson, 1965, Shepard, 1967, Standing, Conezio, & Haber, 1970) and for storage of tens of thousands of object representations over the course of a lifetime (Biederman, 1987) However, recent evidence suggests that observers often fail to notice dramatic changes to…
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