Visual worlds: construction or reconstruction?

Authors: Davies T.¹; Hoffman D.²; Rodriguez A.M.³

Source: Journal of Consciousness Studies, Volume 9, Numbers 5-6, 2002 , pp. 72-87(16)

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Abstract:

Psychophysical studies of change blindness indicate that, at any instant, human observers are aware of detail in few parts of the visual field. Such results suggest, to some theorists, that human vision reconstructs only a few portions of the visual scene and that, to bridge the resulting representational gaps, it often lets physical objects serve as their own short-term memory. We propose that human vision reconstructs no portion of the visual scene, and that it never lets physical objects serve as their own short-term memory.

Language: English

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: Dept of Cognitive Science, University of California, Irvine CA 92697. Email: daviest@uci.edu 2: Email: dhoffman@orion.oac.uci.edu 3: Email: tonyr@uci.edu

Publication date: 2002-01-01