To understand visual consciousness, we must understand how the brain represents
ensembles of objects at many levels of perceptual analysis. Ensemble perception refers to …

A vast amount of information is available to the visual system at any given moment.
Processing the billions of bits of information on the retina is a monumental challenge, but the …

Average extraction from multiple similar items in ensemble perception has been
demonstrated in a variety of visual features. This study investigated whether the visual …

To recover the reflectance and shape of an object in a scene, the human visual system must
account for the properties of the light illuminating the object. Here, we examine the extent to …

The light sources in a scene can drastically affect the pattern of intensities falling on the
retina. However, it is unclear how the visual system represents the light sources in a scene …

A growing body of research has demonstrated the ability of subjects to extract representative
statistics from visual ensembles, images of similar but distinct groups of objects, without …