A century of experiments on human visual memory have catalogued the many determinants of what people remember about their visual environments. In a massive experimental study of visual memory, Huang leverages mobile gaming to collect a dataset of 35 million behavioural responses that reveals how the mechanisms of visual spatial memory fit together.
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Suchow, J.W. Scaling up behavioural studies of visual memory. Nat Hum Behav 7, 672–673 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01565-1
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