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 …

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 …

Although the mechanisms of visual working memory (VWM) have been studied extensively
in recent years, the active property of VWM has received less attention. In the current study …

Retaining social interactions in working memory (WM) for further social activities is vital for a
successful social life. Researchers have noted a social chunking phenomenon in WM: WM …

Memory for objects in a display sometimes reveals attraction—the objects are remembered
as more similar to one another than they actually were—and sometimes reveals repulsion …

Studies on attentional selection typically use unpredictable and meaningless stimuli, such
as simple shapes and oriented lines. The assumption is that using these stimuli minimizes …

Recognising objects is a vital skill on which humans heavily rely to respond quickly and
adaptively to their environment. Yet, we lack a full understanding of the role visual …

The vision sciences literature contains a large diversity of experimental and theoretical
approaches to the study of visual attention. We argue that this diversity arises, at least in …

Through ensemble encoding, the visual system compresses redundant statistical properties
from multiple items into a single summary metric (eg, average size). Numerous studies have …