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 …

Three questions have been prominent in the study of visual working memory limitations:(a)
What is the nature of mnemonic precision (eg, quantized or continuous)?(b) How many …

The fundamental goal of perception is to aid in the achievement of behavioral objectives.
This requires extracting and communicating useful information from noisy and uncertain …

Efficient data compression is essential for capacity-limited systems, such as biological
perception and perceptual memory. We hypothesize that the need for efficient compression …

We investigated whether the representations of different objects are maintained
independently in working memory or interact with each other. Observers were shown two …

How do people recognize and learn about complex functional structure? Taking inspiration
from other areas of cognitive science, we propose that this is achieved by harnessing …

The nature of capacity limits for visual working memory has been the subject of an intense
debate that has relied on models that assume items are encoded independently. Here we …

Both in everyday life and in memory research, people tend to think that items are 'held'in
mind, in the same way that a real-world object can be held in one's hand. Inspired by this …

Human brains are finite, and thus have bounded capacity. An efficient strategy for a capacity-
limited agent is to continuously adapt by dynamically reallocating capacity in a task …