What Type of Templates Do We Use for Visual Processing? Caricatures Might Be the Answer

In this episode, Zekun Sun and Chaz Firestone from Johns Hopkins University join Under the Cortex to discuss their new paper in Psychological Science titled “Caricaturing Shapes in Visual Memory.” The conversation with APS’s Özge G. Fischer Baum reviews how our visual system uses templates and exaggerates the basic features of objects in memory. The authors describe a series of experiments that show how visual memory is more complex than previously thought and that visual details in memory are not always lost.    If you're interested in learning more about this research, visit psychologicalscience.org.    Send us your thoughts and questions at [email protected].