“To deal with the whole visual input at once, and make discriminations based on any combination of features in the field, would require too large a brain, or too much "previous experience" to be plausible.”

— Ulric Neisser

Source: Cognitive Psychology, 1967, p. 87

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American psychologist 1928–2012

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