Ensemble perception

D Whitney, A Yamanashi Leib - Annual review of psychology, 2018 - annualreviews.org
To understand visual consciousness, we must understand how the brain represents
ensembles of objects at many levels of perceptual analysis. Ensemble perception refers to …

Capabilities and limitations of peripheral vision

R Rosenholtz - Annual review of vision science, 2016 - annualreviews.org
This review discusses several pervasive myths about peripheral vision, as well as what is
actually true: Peripheral vision underlies a broad range of visual tasks, in spite of its …

Multi-level crowding and the paradox of object recognition in clutter

M Manassi, D Whitney - Current Biology, 2018 - cell.com
In everyday life, we are constantly surrounded by complex and cluttered scenes. In such
cluttered environments, visual perception is primarily limited by crowding, the deleterious …

Challenges to pooling models of crowding: Implications for visual mechanisms

R Rosenholtz, D Yu, S Keshvari - Journal of vision, 2019 - jov.arvojournals.org
A set of phenomena known as crowding reveal peripheral vision's vulnerability in the face of
clutter. Crowding is important both because of its ubiquity, making it relevant for many real …
G Francis, M Manassi, MH Herzog - Psychological review, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
Investigations of visual crowding, where a target is difficult to identify because of flanking
elements, has largely used a theoretical perspective based on local interactions where …

A unifying model of orientation crowding in peripheral vision

WJ Harrison, PJ Bex - Current Biology, 2015 - cell.com
Peripheral vision is fundamentally limited not by the visibility of features, but by the spacing
between them [1]. When too close together, visual features can become" crowded" and …