Representing multiple objects as an ensemble enhances visual cognition

 

 

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Representing multiple objects as an ensemble enhances visual cognition

via ScienceDirect Publication: Trends in Cognitive Sciences on 2/2/11

Publication year: 2011
Source: Trends in Cognitive Sciences, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 2 February 2011
George A., Alvarez
The visual system can only accurately represent a handful of objects at once. How do we cope with this severe capacity limitation? One possibility is to use selective attention to process only the most relevant incoming information. A complementary strategy is to represent sets of objects as a group or ensemble (e.g. represent the average size of items). Recent studies have established that the visual system computes accurate ensemble representations across a variety of feature domains and current research aims to determine how these representations are computed, why they are computed and where they are coded in the brain. Ensemble...

 

 

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