TY - JOUR
T1 - Uncorking the bottleneck of crowding
T2 - A fresh look at object recognition
AU - Herzog, Michael H.
AU - Manassi, M.
N1 - This work was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) Project ‘Basics of visual processing: what crowds in crowding?’.
PY - 2015/2
Y1 - 2015/2
N2 - In crowding, the perception of a target deteriorates in the presence of clutter. Crowding is usually explained within the framework of object recognition, where processing proceeds in a hierarchical and feedforward fashion from the analysis of low level features, such as lines and edges, to high level features, such shapes and objects. Here, reviewing work of the last two years, we will show evidence that these models fail to explain a large body of findings, which undermine the philosophy of this approach as such. We propose that the configuration of more or less all elements across the entire visual field determines crowding. Wholes, such as objects and shapes, determine performance on their constituting elements. Perceptual grouping and Gestalt, neglected for a long time, are key to understand crowding and object recognition in general.
AB - In crowding, the perception of a target deteriorates in the presence of clutter. Crowding is usually explained within the framework of object recognition, where processing proceeds in a hierarchical and feedforward fashion from the analysis of low level features, such as lines and edges, to high level features, such shapes and objects. Here, reviewing work of the last two years, we will show evidence that these models fail to explain a large body of findings, which undermine the philosophy of this approach as such. We propose that the configuration of more or less all elements across the entire visual field determines crowding. Wholes, such as objects and shapes, determine performance on their constituting elements. Perceptual grouping and Gestalt, neglected for a long time, are key to understand crowding and object recognition in general.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84949117842&partnerID=MN8TOARS
U2 - 10.1016/j.cobeha.2014.10.006
DO - 10.1016/j.cobeha.2014.10.006
M3 - Article
VL - 1
SP - 86
EP - 93
JO - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
JF - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
ER -