Nature Communications (Nov 2016)

Fast ensemble representations for abstract visual impressions

  • Allison Yamanashi Leib,
  • Anna Kosovicheva,
  • David Whitney

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13186
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Perceiving objects as lifelike is an inferential process but whether it occurs quickly and how it applies to groups of objects is not well understood. Here the authors show that observers’ percepts of crowd lifelikeness are fast and represent the average of the individual objects comprising that crowd.