ArticlePLoS computational biology2019
Beyond Bouma's window: How to explain global aspects of crowding?
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- The Irreducibility of Vision: Gestalt, Crowding and the Fundamentals of Vision.Vision (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Multidimensional feature interactions in visual crowding: When configural cues eliminate the polarity advantage.Journal of vision · 2022Article
- Mixture-modeling approach reveals global and local processes in visual crowding.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Global and high-level effects in crowding cannot be predicted by either high-dimensional pooling or target cueing.Journal of vision · 2021Article
- Emergence of crowding: The role of contrast and orientation salience.Journal of vision · 2021Article
- ImageNet-trained deep neural networks exhibit illusion-like response to the Scintillating grid.Journal of vision · 2021Article
- Redundancy between spectral and higher-order texture statistics for natural image segmentation.Vision research · 2021Article
- Dissecting (un)crowding.Journal of vision · 2021Article
- Opposing effects of selectivity and invariance in peripheral vision.Nature communications · 2021Article
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Abstract
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, to date there exists no consensus on how to model it. Previous experiments showed that the global configuration of the entire stimulus must be taken into account. These findings rule out simple pooling or substitution models and favor models sensitive to global spatial aspects. In order to investigate how to incorporate global aspects into models, we tested a large number of models with a database of forty stimuli tailored for the global aspects of crowding. Our results show that incorporating grouping like components strongly improves model performance.
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