Quotes by Edward Vogel

“What were able to show is that its 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.”

“Were filled with all sorts of facts about things that have happened in our lives, and theres no seeming end to it.”

“That may play a role in creativity and imagination.”

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