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

Ensemble perception, including the ability to “see the average” from a group of items,
operates in numerous feature domains (size, orientation, speed, facial expression, etc.) …

To overcome inherent limitations in perceptual bandwidth, many aspects of the visual world
are represented as summary statistics (eg, average size, orientation, or density of objects) …

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 …

696 David Whitney, Jason Haberman, and Timothy D. Sweeny object perception as a
synergy of lower-level inputs; the final percept was more than the sum of its parts …

Individuals can rapidly and precisely judge the average of a set of similar items, including
both low-level (Ariely, 2001) and high-level objects (Haberman & Whitney, 2007). However …

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 …

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 …

Crowding, the inability to recognize objects in clutter, sets a fundamental limit on conscious
visual perception and object recognition throughout most of the visual field. Despite how …

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