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 …

Face perception is considered a remarkable visual ability in humans that is subject to a
prolonged developmental trajectory. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, mask-wearing …

Human observers extract perceptual summaries for sets of items after brief visual exposure,
accurately judging the average size of geometric shapes (Ariely, 2001), walking direction of …

Are gender differences in face recognition influenced by familiarity and socio-cultural
factors? Previous studies have reported gender differences in processing unfamiliar faces …

Ensemble representations are efficient codes that the brain generates effortlessly even
under noisy conditions. However, the role of visual awareness for computing ensemble …

People often interact with groups (ie, ensembles) during social interactions. Given that group-
level information is important in navigating social environments, we expect perceptual …

We intuitively perceive mood or collective information of facial expressions without much
effort. Although it is known that statistical summarization occurs even for faces …

In many social situations, we make a snap judgment about crowds of people relying on their
overall mood (termed “crowd emotion”). Although reading crowd emotion is critical for …

Trustworthiness impressions are fundamental social judgements with far-reaching
consequences in many aspects of society, including criminal justice, leadership selection …