There is a growing body of research on ensemble perception, or our ability to form ensemble
representations based on perceptual features for stimuli of varying levels of complexity, and …

External noise paradigms are widely used to characterize sensitivity by comparing the effect
of a variable on contrast threshold when it is limited by internal versus external noise. A …

The visual system pools information from local samples to calculate textural properties. We
used a novel stimulus to investigate how signals are combined to improve estimates of …

Ensemble statistics of a visual scene can be estimated to provide a gist of the scene without
detailed analysis of all individual items. The simplest and most widely studied ensemble …

Crowding is the major sensory factor responsible for the slow reading speeds exhibited in
peripheral vision. Past attempts to improve peripheral reading via crowding reduction have …

In the furrow illusion (Anstis,), the perceived path of a moving target follows the veridical path
orientation when viewed foveally, but follows the orientation of the texture when viewed …

Humans have well-documented priors for many features present in nature that guide visual
perception. Despite being putatively grounded in the statistical regularities of the …

Despite decades of research, significant mysteries remain concerning two fundamental
aspects of human visual processing: how we perceive moderately complex line shapes such …

The present paper studies the perceived orientation of line patterns with variable elongation,
line length, orientation jitter, and presentation time. It evaluates whether the internal noise …

Cueing a target by abrupt visual stimuli enhances its perception in a rapid but short-lived
fashion, an effect known as transient attention. Our recent study showed that when targets …