The human visual system represents summary statistical information (eg average) along
many visual dimensions efficiently. While studies have indicated that approximately the …

To compensate for the limited visual information that can be perceived and remembered at
any given moment, many aspects of the visual world are represented as summary statistics …

Human observers can accurately estimate statistical summaries from an ensemble of
multiple stimuli, including the average size, hue, and direction of motion. The efficiency and …

Despite several processing limitations that have been identified in the visual system,
research shows that statistical information about a set of objects could be perceived as …

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 …

Many studies have shown that observers can accurately estimate the average feature of a
group of objects. However, the way the visual system relies on the information from each …

The visual system has a limited capacity for dealing with complex and redundant information
in a scene. Here, we propose that a distributed attention mode of processing is necessary for …

Abstract Ariely's (2001)“Seeing Sets: Representation by Statistical Properties”(Psychological
Science, 12, 157–162) rekindled interest in summary-value estimation for visual ensembles …

Ensemble representations are often described as efficient tools when summarizing features
of multiple similar objects as a group. However, it can sometimes be more useful not to …

There has been a recent surge in the study of ensemble coding, the idea that the visual
system represents a set of similar items using summary statistics (Alvarez & Oliva, 2008; …