Iconic versus working memory metacognition to evaluate the richness of perception: a registered report.
Royal Society open science November 1, 2025 Nicolás Alejandro Comay, Guillermo Solovey, Pablo Barttfeld
The high capacity of human iconic memory (IM) has been taken as evidence that visual experience is rich and detailed, as introspection suggests. Opponents to this view argue instead that this impression is illusory, with conscious access being mostly limited to what we can attend to. To provide evidence of either view, in this registered report we compared metacognitive sensitivity levels...