Vision includes looking and seeing. Looking, mainly via gaze shifts, selects a fraction of
visual input information for passage through the brain's information bottleneck. The selected …

The goal of this work is to characterize the representational impact that foveation operations
have for machine vision systems, inspired by the foveated human visual system, which has …

Classically, visual processing is described as a cascade of local feedforward computations.
Feedforward Convolutional Neural Networks (ffCNNs) have shown how powerful such …

Visual crowding refers to the phenomenon where a target object that is easily identifiable in
isolation becomes difficult to recognize when surrounded by other stimuli (distractors). Many …

In crowding, the perception of a target strongly deteriorates in the presence of neighboring
elements. Crowding is the standard situation in everyday life since elements are rarely seen …

In crowding, perception of an object deteriorates in the presence of nearby elements.
Although crowding is a ubiquitous phenomenon, since elements are rarely seen in isolation …

Sensory processing necessitates discarding some information in service of preserving and
reformatting more behaviorally relevant information. Sensory neurons seem to achieve this …

Summary In crowding, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 objects that can be easily recognized in isolation
appear jumbled when surrounded by other elements. 8 Traditionally, crowding is explained …

Crowding is the inability to recognize an object in clutter, usually considered a fundamental
low-level bottleneck to object recognition. Here we advance and test an alternative idea, that …

In visual crowding, the perception of a target deteriorates in the presence of nearby flankers.
Traditionally, target-flanker interactions have been considered as local, mostly deleterious …