ArticleCognitive research: principles and implications2020
Emotional judgments of scenes are influenced by unintentional averaging.
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- Rapid ensemble encoding of average scene features.Journal of vision · 2026Article
- The perceptual and mnemonic effects of ensemble representation on individual size representation.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2024Article
- Your ears don't change what your eyes like: People can independently report the pleasure of music and images.Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance · 2023Article
- The Functional Visual Field(s) in simple visual search.Vision research · 2022Article
- The pleasure of multiple images.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe visual system uses ensemble perception to summarize visual input across a variety of domains. This heuristic operates at multiple levels of vision, compressing information as basic as oriented lines or as complex as emotional faces. Given its pervasiveness, the ensemble unsurprisingly can influence how an individual item is perceived, and vice versa.
methodsIn the current experiments, we tested whether the perceived emotional valence of a single scene could be influenced by surrounding, simultaneously presented scenes. Observers first rated the emotional valence of a series of individual scenes. They then saw ensembles of the original images, presented in sets of four, and were cued to rate, for a second time, one of four.
resultsResults confirmed that the perceived emotional valence of the cued image was pulled toward the mean emotion of the surrounding ensemble on the majority of trials, even though the ensemble was task-irrelevant. Control experiments and analyses confirmed that the pull was driven by high-level, ensemble information.
conclusionWe conclude that high-level ensemble information can influence how we perceive individual items in a crowd, even when working memory demands are low and the ensemble information is not directly task-relevant.
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