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Series:   Elements in Perception

Representing Variability

How Do We Process the Heterogeneity in the Visual Environment?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Andrey Chetverikov  and
Árni Kristjánsson
Andrey Chetverikov
Affiliation:
Universitetet i Bergen, Norway
Árni Kristjánsson
Affiliation:
University of Iceland, Reykjavik

Summary

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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variability perceptionsummary statisticsperceptual uncertaintyprobabilistic brainexternal noise
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Series: Elements in Perception
Online ISBN: 9781009396035
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication: 21 March 2024

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