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TY - UNPB ID - cogprints1173 UR - http://cogprints.org/1173/ A1 - Beeckmans, John TI - Generation of Conceptual Gists of Abstract Patterns Y1 - 2001/// N2 - A short study was made on the generation of conceptual gists of two abstract stimuli containing either 66 or 200 circles in a range of sizes arranged in symmetric patterns. Distributions of estimates the numerousness of the circles, made by groups of subjects following either 95 ms or 2 s exposures had realistic average values, and were comparable between groups, indicating that gists of the principal geometrical features of the stimuli were captured and consolidated into long-term memory on the basis of a single fixation. Implications of this finding for the controversy on the nature of the coding of images and for the minimalist vision hypothesis are discussed. AV - public KW - perception KW - vision KW - gist KW - information KW - conceptual short-term memory KW - image. ER -