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From: mgflax@phoenix.princeton.edu (Marshall G. Flax)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: braille reading
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Date: 23 May 91 19:13:12 GMT
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Index Number: 15760

In article <15658@handicap.news> William.Wilson@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org writes:
>Index Number: 15658
>
>     Since with sight the total visual field is stored for the duration
>of the iconic memory, it can contain as much as the eye is capable of
>sensing in that amount of time.  
>

Actually, that's not quite true.  Certainly a good deal of the visual
field is processed simultaneously, and it is clear that a good deal of
the results of that processing are stored.  But since the low-level
processing is itself influenced by such high-level details as attention,
it is not possible that the *entire* visual field is stored _in toto_.
Vision is a very complex sense, not usually amenable to blanket
generalizations.

marshall
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