Can nonconceptual content be stored in visual memory?. Raftopoulos, A. Philosophical Psychology, 23(5):639–668, oct, 2010.
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Dartnall claims that visual short-term memory (VSTM) stores nonconceptual content (NCC), in the form of compressed images. In this paper I argue against the claim that NCC can be stored in VSTM. I offer four reasons why NCC cannot be stored in visual memory and why only conceptual information can: (1) NCC lasts for a very short time and does not reach either visual short-term memory or visual long-term memory; (2) the content of visual states is stored in memory only if and when object-centered attention modulates visual processing and this modulation signifies the onset of the conceptualization of that content; (3) only categorical high-level information that characterizes conceptual content and not metric and precise iconic information that characterizes NCC can be stored in visual memory for long periods; and (4) if NCC were stored in visual memory then this would allow recognitional judgments pertaining to NCC-one could recognize the precise shade of a color that one had seen before. However NCC does not allow such recognitional judgments. \textcopyright 2010 Taylor & Francis.
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abstract = {Dartnall claims that visual short-term memory (VSTM) stores nonconceptual content (NCC), in the form of compressed images. In this paper I argue against the claim that NCC can be stored in VSTM. I offer four reasons why NCC cannot be stored in visual memory and why only conceptual information can: (1) NCC lasts for a very short time and does not reach either visual short-term memory or visual long-term memory; (2) the content of visual states is stored in memory only if and when object-centered attention modulates visual processing and this modulation signifies the onset of the conceptualization of that content; (3) only categorical high-level information that characterizes conceptual content and not metric and precise iconic information that characterizes NCC can be stored in visual memory for long periods; and (4) if NCC were stored in visual memory then this would allow recognitional judgments pertaining to NCC-one could recognize the precise shade of a color that one had seen before. However NCC does not allow such recognitional judgments. {\textcopyright} 2010 Taylor {\&} Francis.},
author = {Raftopoulos, Athanassios},
doi = {10.1080/09515089.2010.514571},
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issn = {0951-5089},
journal = {Philosophical Psychology},
month = {oct},
number = {5},
pages = {639--668},
title = {{Can nonconceptual content be stored in visual memory?}},
url = {http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09515089.2010.514571},
volume = {23},
year = {2010}
}

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