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Short-term storage capacity for visual objects depends on expertiseActa Psychologica 140 (2): 158-163. 2012.Visual short-term memory (VSTM) has traditionally been thought to have a very limited capacity of around 3–4 objects. However, recently several researchers have argued that VSTM may be limited in the amount of information retained rather than by a specific number of objects. Here we present a study of the effect of long-term practice on VSTM capacity. We investigated four age groups ranging from pre-school children to adults and measured the change in VSTM capacity for letters and pictures. We f…Read more
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15Face‐Processing Differences Present in Grapheme‐Color SynesthetesCognitive Science 46 (4). 2022.Cognitive Science, Volume 46, Issue 4, April 2022.
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152Template Tuning and Graded ConsciousnessIn Michal Polák, Tomáš Marvan & Juraj Hvorecký (eds.), Conscious and Unconscious Mentality: Examining Their Nature, Similarities and Differences, Routledge. 2023.Whether visual perceptual consciousness is gradable or dichotomous has been the subject of fierce debate in recent years. If perceptual consciousness is gradable, perceivers may have less than full access to—and thus be less than fully phenomenally aware of—perceptual information that is represented in working memory. This raises the question: In virtue of what can a subject be less than fully perceptually conscious? In this chapter, we provide an answer to this question, according to which inex…Read more
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167Predictive Processing and Object RecognitionIn Tony Cheng, Ryoji Sato & Jakob Hohwy (eds.), Expected Experiences: The Predictive Mind in an Uncertain World, Routledge. 2024.Predictive processing models of perception take issue with standard models of perception as hierarchical bottom-up processing modulated by memory and attention. The predictive framework posits that the brain generates predictions about stimuli, which are matched to the incoming signal. Mismatches between predictions and the incoming signal – so-called prediction errors – are then used to generate new and better predictions until the prediction errors have been minimized, at which point a percept…Read more
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83The electrophysiology of introspectionConsciousness and Cognition 15 (4): 662-672. 2006.To study whether the distinction between introspective and non-introspective states of mind is an empirical reality or merely a conceptual distinction, we measured event-related potentials elicited in introspective and non-introspective instruction conditions while the observers were trying to detect the presence of a masked stimulus. The ERPs indicated measurable differences related to introspection in both preconscious and conscious processes. Our data support the hypothesis that introspective…Read more
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175Perceptual variation in object perception: A defence of perceptual pluralismIn Aleksandra Mroczko-Wąsowicz & Rick Grush (eds.), Sensory individuals: unimodal and multimodal perspectives, Oxford University Press. 2023.The basis of perception is the processing and categorization of perceptual stimuli from the environment. Much progress has been made in the science of perceptual categorization. Yet there is still no consensus on how the brain generates sensory individuals, from sensory input and perceptual categories in memory. This chapter argues that perceptual categorization is highly variable across perceivers due to their use of different perceptual strategies for solving perceptual problems they encounter…Read more
Aalborg, North Jutland Region, Denmark
Areas of Specialization
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Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Consciousness |
Perception |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
Mental States and Processes |
Metaphysics of Mind |