ArticleScientific reports2018
Crowding for faces is determined by visual (not holistic) similarity: Evidence from judgements of eye position.
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- Response selection modulates crowding: a cautionary tale for invoking top-down explanations.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2020Article
- Dissociable effects of visual crowding on the perception of color and motion.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Contrast versus identity encoding in the face image follow distinct orientation selectivity profiles.PloS one · 2020Article
- Challenges to pooling models of crowding: Implications for visual mechanisms.Journal of vision · 2019Article
- Beyond Bouma's window: How to explain global aspects of crowding?PLoS computational biology · 2019Article
- The Role of Emotional Expression and Eccentricity on Gaze Perception.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
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- The extraction of natural scene gist in visual crowding.Scientific reports · 2018Article
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Abstract
Crowding (the disruption of object recognition in clutter) presents the fundamental limitation on peripheral vision. For simple objects, crowding is strong when target/flanker elements are similar and weak when they differ - a selectivity for target-flanker similarity. In contrast, the identification of upright holistically-processed face stimuli is more strongly impaired by upright than inverted flankers, whereas inverted face-targets are impaired by both - a pattern attributed to an additional stage of crowding selective for "holistic similarity" between faces. We propose instead that crowding is selective for target-flanker similarity in all stimuli, but that this selectivity is obscured by task difficulty with inverted face-targets. Using judgements of horizontal eye-position that are minimally affected by inversion, we find that crowding is strong when target-flanker orientations match and weak when they differ for both upright and inverted face-targets. By increasing task difficulty, we show that this selectivity for target-flanker similarity is obscured even for upright face-targets. We further demonstrate that this selectivity follows differences in the spatial order of facial features, rather than "holistic similarity" per se. There is consequently no need to invoke a distinct stage of holistic crowding for faces - crowding is selective for target-flanker similarity, even with complex stimuli such as faces.
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