What modern vision science reveals about the awareness puzzle: Summary-statistic encoding plus decision limits underlie the richness of visual perception and its quirky failures
arXiv Preprint Archive June 8, 2017 Ruth Rosenholtz
There is a fundamental puzzle in understanding our awareness of the visual world. On one hand, our subjective experience is one of a rich visual world, which we perceive effortlessly. However, when we actually test perception, observers know surprisingly little. A number of tasks, from search, through inattentional blindness, to change blindness, suggest that there is surprisingly little...