Ensemble perception: Stacking the hay to find the needle

David Whitney; Mauro Manassi

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2022.09.042

Ensemble perception: Stacking the hay to find the needle

Curr Biol. 2022 Nov 21;32(22):R1264-R1266. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.09.042.

Authors

David Whitney¹, Mauro Manassi²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychology and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and Vision Science Program, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
² School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, King's College, Aberdeen, UK.

PMID: 36413967
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.09.042

Abstract

The visual clutter we constantly encounter in the world limits object recognition, a phenomenon known as visual crowding. A new study shows that ensemble perception counters this by condensing redundant information into summary statistical representations, which thus releases visual crowding's effect on individual objects.

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MeSH terms

Visual Perception*