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ArticlePsychonomic bulletin & review2024

Seeing in crowds: Averaging first, then max.

Xincheng Lu, Ruijie Jiang, Meng Song, Yiting Wu, Yiran Ge, Nihong Chen

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Article in Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Xincheng Lu *Department of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, Room 506, Weiqing Building, Beijing, 100084, People's Republic of China.
Ruijie Jiang *Department of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, Room 506, Weiqing Building, Beijing, 100084, People's Republic of China.
Meng SongDepartment of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, Room 506, Weiqing Building, Beijing, 100084, People's Republic of China.
Yiting WuKhoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
Yiran GeDepartment of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, Room 506, Weiqing Building, Beijing, 100084, People's Republic of China.
Nihong ChenDepartment of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, Room 506, Weiqing Building, Beijing, 100084, People's Republic of China. nihongch@tsinghua.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0890-3875

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Crowding, a fundamental limit in object recognition, is believed to result from excessive integration of nearby items in peripheral vision. To understand its pooling mechanisms, we measured subjects' internal response distributions in an orientation crowding task. Contrary to the prediction of an averaging model, we observed a pattern suggesting that the perceptual judgement is made based on choosing the largest response across the noise-perturbed items. A model featuring first-stage averaging and second-stage signed-max operation predicts the diverse errors made by human observers under various signal strength levels. These findings suggest that different rules operate to resolve the bottleneck at early and high-level stages of visual processing, implementing a combination of linear and nonlinear pooling strategies.

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Pattern Recognition, VisualAdultHumansModels, PsychologicalVisual PerceptionCrowdingPoolingPsychophysicsVision

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PMID38337141

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