Capacity limits of information processing in the brain
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Despite the impressive complexity and processing power of the human brain, it is severely capacity limited. Behavioral research has highlighted three major bottlenecks of information processing that can cripple our ability to consciously perceive, hold in mind, and act upon the visual world, illustrated by the attentional blink (AB), visual short-term memory (VSTM), and psychological refractory period (PRP) phenomena, respectively. A review of the neurobiological literature suggests that the capacity limit of VSTM storage is primarily localized to the posterior parietal and occipital cortex, whereas the AB and PRP are associated with partly overlapping fronto-parietal networks. The convergence of these two networks in the lateral frontal cortex points to this brain region as a putative neural locus of a common processing bottleneck for perception and action.
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The neural resource required increases gradually when progressing through the three stages of general information processing.
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- Authors
- Marois, R., & Ivanoff, J.
- Affiliations
- Vanderbilt University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Marois, René
- Venue
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2005-06
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 296-305
- ISSN
- 1364-6613 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2165043502
- Cited by
- 928
- References
- 94
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 2.17
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- erratum (2005-09-01)
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- National Institute of Mental Health
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
- Keywords
- attentional blink, visual short-term memory, psychological refractory period, visual working memory, posterior parietal cortex, occipital cortex, frontoparietal network, lateral frontal cortex, perception-action coupling
- MeSH terms
- Attention, Blinking, Brain, Cognition, Humans, Memory, Short-Term
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