To understand visual consciousness, we must understand how the brain represents
ensembles of objects at many levels of perceptual analysis. Ensemble perception refers to …

Groups, teams, and collectives—people—are incredibly important to human behavior.
People live in families, work in teams, and celebrate and mourn together in groups. Despite …

Philosopher Ned Block argues in this book that there is a" joint in nature" between
perception and cognition and that by exploring the nature of that joint, one can solve …

Almost all models of visual memory implicitly assume that errors in mnemonic
representations are linearly related to distance in stimulus space. Here we show that neither …

Perceptual systems respond to proximal stimuli by forming mental representations of distal
stimuli. A central goal for the philosophy of perception is to characterize the representations …

This Element outlines the recent understanding of ensemble representations in perception
in a holistic way aimed to engage the general audience, novel and expert alike. The …

The visual perception of individuals has received considerable attention (visual person
perception), but little social psychological work has examined the processes underlying the …

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

Traditionally, recognizing the objects within a scene has been treated as a prerequisite to
recognizing the scene itself. However, research now suggests that the ability to rapidly …

There is recent evidence for a domain-general object recognition ability, called O, which is
distinct from general intelligence and other cognitive and personality constructs. We extend …