Ensemble perception: Stacking the hay to find the needle

The visual clutter we constantly encounter in the world limits object recognition, a phenomenon known as visual crowding. A new study shows that ensemble perception counters this by condensing redundant information into summary statistical representations, which thus releases visual crowding's effect on individual objects.

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Visual crowding, a phenomenon that hampers object recognition, is countered by ensemble perception, which condenses redundant information into summary statistics.