Edward Vogel Quotations

Until now, it's been assumed that people with high capacity visual working memory had greater storage, but actually it's about the bouncer -- a neural mechanism that controls what information gets into awareness.

We're filled with all sorts of facts about things that have happened in our lives, and there's no seeming end to it.

What we're able to show is that it's possible the storage space (of all people) is more or less about the same. The difference is not how many things you can hold in (short-term) memory at the same time, but how efficient you are at keeping irrelevant things out.

That may play a role in creativity and imagination.