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Jeremy M. Wolfe: Hybrid Search: How Long-term Memories Interact with Visual Search

On October 28, 2014 Jeremy M. Wolfe (Harvard Medical School, USA) spoke on ‘Hybrid Search: How Long-term Memories Interact with Visual Search’
Abstract
When you open your eyes on a new scene, you immediately see something. You can understand the basic ‘gist’ of that scene within a fraction of a second. You can remember that seen for days after a just a few seconds exposure. Nevertheless, we can easily show that you are ‘blind’ or at least remarkably amnesic about very basic aspects of what you have just seen. I will attempt to explain this seemingly contradictory collection of abilities and limits. Moreover, I will discuss the impact of these aspects of normal human vision and attention on important tasks like airport security and cancer screening.