Fleeting memories : cognition of brief visual stimuli / edited by Veronika Coltheart.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coltheart, Veronika.

Series:

MIT Press/Bradford Books series in cognitive psychology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Visual perception.

Short-term memory.

Cognition.

Human information processing.

Local Subjects:

Human information processing.

Physical Description:

vi, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1999]

Summary:

The investigation of what people understand and remember from rapidly presented sequences of visual stimuli began in the late 1960s. In this book prominent researchers approach the topic from psychological, neuropsychological, and electrophysiological perspectives. Specific issues include RSVP (rapid serial visual presentation), attentional blink, repetition blindness, and scene perception. The contributors review recent research on our ability to comprehend and remember pictures of objects and scenes, written words, and sentences when the visual stimuli are presented sequentially at rates of up to ten items per second. In short, the book is about our remarkably developed abilities to understand and remember the contents of very briefly presented material. Contributors: Daphne Bavelier, Veronika Coltheart, Helene Intraub, Nancy Kanwisher, Steven J. Luck, Nadine Martin, Mary C. Potter, Eleanor M. Saffran, Kimron L. Shapiro, Ewa Wojciulik, Jeremy M. Wolfe, Carol Yin.

Notes:

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0262032619

OCLC:

39633852