Top down predictions moderate visual appearance of attended objects
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Early experiments on iconic memory suggested that people initially experience a detailed visual image but can report only a few cued items. We hypothesized that strong top down predictions would allow for visual experience of only task relevant information. In a change detection task we manipulated the appearance of visual stimuli in the critical part of the experiment by removing up to 70
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