Chaz Firestone

The paper demonstrates that the visual system represents animacy independently of lower-level visual features using controlled experiments with orientation-sensitive images.

This study shows that human guesses are systematically biased toward features with low perceptual precision, revealing strategic metacognitive knowledge of sensory limitations.

The paper shows that inattentionally blind participants can report visual features of stimuli they claim to have missed, indicating residual visual sensitivity and challenging the link between attention and awareness.