Representing Variability

2024/02/28 by Andrey Chetverikov, Árni Kristjánsson · 1 voice
Neuroscience · Psychology · #Color perception and design #Multisensory perception and integration #Visual perception and processing mechanisms

paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/9781009396035

openalex publication_date 2024/02/28 · openalex created_date 2024/03/14 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/22

Abstract

The visual world is full of detail. This Element focuses on this variability in perception, asking how it affects performance in visual tasks and how the variability is represented by human observers. The authors highlight different methods for assessing representations of variability and suggest that understanding visual variability can be elusive when straightforward explicit methods are used, while more implicit methods may be better suited to uncovering such processing. The authors conclude that variability is represented in far more detail than previously thought and that this aspect of perception is vital for understanding the complexity of visual consciousness.

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Discussions

• Arni Kristjansson and I have just published a review on how we process variability in the visual world. It's been a fun topic to work on, related to my long-time interest in how we process the 'noise' [bsky, 7 points, 1 comments]

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