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Can we equate iconic memory with visual awareness?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2008

Rogier Landman  and
Ilja G. Sligte
Rogier Landman
Affiliation:
McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
Ilja G. Sligte
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, 1018 WB Amsterdam, The Netherlandslandmanr@gmail.com i.g.sligte@uva.nl
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Abstract

Every time we look around we can see a rich and detailed world surrounding us. Nevertheless, the majority of visual information seems to slip out of our thoughts instantly. Can we still say that this fleeting percept of the entire world was a conscious percept in the first place, as Block proposes?

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 30 , Issue 5-6 , December 2007 , pp. 512 - 513
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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