Multi-level crowding and the paradox of object recognition in clutter

M Manassi, D Whitney - Current Biology, 2018 - cell.com
In everyday life, we are constantly surrounded by complex and cluttered scenes. In such
cluttered environments, visual perception is primarily limited by crowding, the deleterious …

Challenges to pooling models of crowding: Implications for visual mechanisms

R Rosenholtz, D Yu, S Keshvari - Journal of vision, 2019 - jov.arvojournals.org
A set of phenomena known as crowding reveal peripheral vision's vulnerability in the face of
clutter. Crowding is important both because of its ubiquity, making it relevant for many real …

[HTML][HTML] The role of parietal beta-band activity in the resolution of visual crowding

G Di Dona, DA Zamfira, M Battista, L Battaglini… - NeuroImage, 2024 - Elsevier
Visual crowding is the difficulty in identifying an object when surrounded by neighbouring
flankers, representing a bottleneck for object perception. Crowding arises not only from the …

Beyond Bouma's window: How to explain global aspects of crowding?

A Doerig, A Bornet, R Rosenholtz… - PLoS computational …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
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 …

Global and high-level effects in crowding cannot be predicted by either high-dimensional pooling or target cueing

A Bornet, OH Choung, A Doerig, D Whitney… - Journal of …, 2021 - jov.arvojournals.org
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 …

Face cells encode object parts more than facial configuration of illusory faces

S Sharma, K Vinken, AV Jagadeesh… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Humans perceive illusory faces in everyday objects with a face-like configuration, an illusion
known as face pareidolia. Face-selective regions in humans and monkeys, believed to …

[HTML][HTML] When the whole is only the parts: non-holistic object parts predominate face-cell responses to illusory faces

S Sharma, K Vinken, MS Livingstone - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Humans are inclined to perceive faces in everyday objects with a face-like configuration.
This illusion, known as face pareidolia, is often attributed to a specialized network of'face …

The anger superiority effect revisited: a visual crowding task

M Gong, LJ Smart - Cognition and Emotion, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Visual search studies have shown that threatening facial expressions are more efficiently
detected among a crowd of distractor faces than nonthreatening expressions, known as the …

Glaucoma affects viewing distance for recognition of sex and facial expression

A Schafer, JF Rouland, C Peyrin… - … & visual science, 2018 - iovs.arvojournals.org
Purpose: To measure the distance for sex and facial expression recognition in patients with
glaucoma. Methods: Sixteen patients with open-angle glaucoma, 16 age-matched controls …

Twofold advantages of face processing with or without visual awareness.

LF Zhou, K Wang, L He, M Meng - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
The advantages of face processing over processing items in other object categories have
been found in conditions both with and without visual awareness. This study examined the …